Miscellaneous
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| 29 | Dorothy Birthday Feb 6 1928 Dorothy Married Dec 30th 1945 Graduated Feb 1945 |
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| December | |
| 1 | Books I’m reading—1939 Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge All this & Heaven too by Margaret Field Fanny Kimball by Margaret Armstrong A Southerner discovers the South by Jonathan Daniels |
| 2 | Books I am reading Jan 15th 1938 The Inside of Europe—very good—not light reading by John Gunther A New book of Cleopatra by Emily Ludwig Mrs Buncles book Miss Buncle marries Stevenson (very good) One life one Kopeck by Walter Durauty (terrible) The Citadel San Michel A City of bells by Elizabeth Goudge Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge |
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| 8 | Came to California Sep 1919 Lucy Married Jan 1st 1921 |
| 9 | Books I have read The Bishops Mantal by Agnes Hurnball The Mirical of the Bar wonderful Showman of Vanity Fair by Leonard Stevenson The Rise of Henry Morco by Bently |
| 10 | Good books I have read—March 30 1936 Europa—Briffault Thers Always Tomorrow Margaret Harrison |
| | 4 2 President Hoover Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis Modern but amusing |
| 11 | Words written by a Grandmother I found them to be only too true “What need is there to fret or worry or scheme for God may be trusted to repay what you sincerely and humbly believe life owes you for work well done, for fortitude in disappointment for responsibilities well shouldered, for patience and perseverance in the face of apparent failure. Be patient, the debt will be paid you in full in his own good time, and with interest.” |
| 12 | Books are Keys to wisdom’s treasures Books are gates to lands of pleasure Books are paths that upward lead Books are friends. Come let us read Sonnets from the Portuguese Mrs Browning |
| 13 | Books I have read Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Flying Inn Chesterton Penny Plan Dugless Biography of Washing Irving splendid The Bargain True No good. The Woman who Made or Novels Grant Overton Grant and Clay Sara Ware Bassed My Musical Life Walter Damrosch |
| 14 | Just my sentiment too— When I was young my imagination was always in the advance, picturing out the future, and building castles in the air, now memory comes in the place of imagination and I look back on the regions I have traveled. Thank God—the same plastic feeling that used to deck all my future with the hues of Fairy land throws a soft coloring on the past until the very roughest places through which I struggled with many a heartbreak loose all their asperity in the distance. From, Washington Irvings Biography great 1929 |
| 15 | Things sent to Hattie and which should be returned when she is through with them. Brown dress, red dress, White flannel wrapper—blue dress thin one. Irish crochet lace—pearl beads white shawl I gave her mother All these things I have sent her. Then the things I should like from the house when she is through are the long mirror in the setting room, large rug in the sitting room, blue set of dishes, Photo of :Dante” family tea pot, Silver, |
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| 22 | It is not sad to be old if, when the physical sight dims—the soul sees more clearly and the light from the world to come illuminates the last dark bit of the way. A quiet saunter about a cathedral effects like a walk in one of his beloved Americas forests. I cannot compare the scenes, but their sublime and solitary features produce the same dilatation of the heart and swelling of the spirit the same aspiring and longing after something exalting and indefinite something—I know not what—but [unreadable] thing I know this world cannot give me—Washington Irving’s Biography |
| 23 | If you [aupuly]—day by day, God understands and will see you through it but only day by day—Bishop Wilkinson It is not a fact that Religion has been tried and found wanting Religion has been difficult and not tried. G. K. Chesterton Our real friends are those who make us do what we can—Emerson “Religion is a service of God out of a greatful love of God.—Phillips Brooks |
| 24 | Try to do three things every day 1st Comit a few words to memory 2nd See something beautiful and speak of it to some one 3rd Do something for someone Alice Freeman Palmer Courage for the Great sorrows of life and patience for the finale ones, and when you have accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace—God is awake. Victor Hugo The three Christian Attributes are Sincerity, Courage, Faith. Bishop Manning |
| 25 | God helps him who helps himself. Euripedes 12 greatest writers 1. Shakespeare 2. Dante 3. Homer 4. Virgil 5. Milton 6. Balsac 7. [blank] 8. Goethe 9. Molier 10. Plato 11. Dickenson 12. Voltaire |
| | Study of Literature nourishes youth Entertains old age Adorns prosperity Solaces adversity Is delightful at home and unobtrusive abroad |
| 26 | Love Who loves, forgets himself oppresseth not The one he loves, doth more than clothe and feed, and find a home for his own meals He does consult, honor her respect her feelings, as they were his won True love sustains the mind, and makes the spirit thrive, uplifts the Earthly towards the spiritual part, It makes the dullest clod a thing of life. Its presence fills the darkest hurt with light Illumes it’s walls with day it silvers on the wooden spoon and gilds the gourd with Gold |
| 27 | Books that are good “Egoist” Meridith Life of Christ Hill A Mans Man—Hay Le Pelit word Greenfell Qweed by Harrison Benefit Received—Alice Grant Rodman [unreadable] Eyes Harrison Lost Ecstasy Mary Robert Rinehart Culters By Aldrich Raw Material Dorothy Canfield Little Women The Sheltered life by Ellen Glascow |
| 28 | Books that are good Up the Years from Bloomsbury George Arliss Select Dialogue of Plato Socrates Guy Dombays by Johnson good Struck by Lightning Kline The Holy Spirit in Life & Service Discein Pictures of the Floating World Amy Lowell A Golden age of Cultures Ellsworth Oxfordbook of Verse Life in the World to come Walpole Greek Literature Murry G |
| 29 | Home Record 352 E 91st Los Angeles Tract—6812 Book—74 Page—3 County Recorder Office Insurance Policy Prudential No. 4790163 No. 5830214 |
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| Memoranda | Books I have read “The Blue Window by— Jalma by Mazo Dela Rouchewinner of the $1000.00 prize “The Enchanted April,” auther of the Elizabeth & her German Garden “Ramona” by Helen Hunt Jackson Shakespear, Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, & Julius Ceasar “Euripides The Media The Bridge of San Luis Ray by Thornton Wilder Dark Hester by [unreadable] Duglas Shadwick |
| Memoranda [2] | All our Yesterdays by [unreadable] Dusty Answers by Rosamond Lehman Time of Man by Elizabeth Roberts Green Meadow by Elizabeth Roberts From Mendelsohm to Whagner by J. M. Davidson |
| [blank] | Pompelia and her Poet by Harriet Gaylord Andromed of Wemple St by Dorma Cheston Terrible Temtation Charles Reed Penny Plain Duglas |