Box 14

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Inquires if election day was exciting in Beaufort and if the ladies turned out to vote; asks about school and how he likes having a different teacher for each subject; literary discussion; congratulates Leon on his historical essay about New York and comments about his visit with Dr. Jacob Raisin; discusses his college choices and financial ramifications.

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Updates on her health situation; compliments on Beth's good marks in school; discusses books she is reading; inquires about Beth's health after having her tonsils removed; wonders about her college plans; details of life in both the NY sanitarium and the Prince Albert Hotel; comments on Rosalyn's health, work and relationship problems.

Scope and Contents Re. efforts to interest Beaufort women in voting; inquires about the girls' social life in Beaufort; letters sent to Rosalyn at USC provide updates on Beaufort and inquire about life in Columbia; describes airplane ride she took around Beaufort and Ladies Island (1930); mentions the family forgot William's birthday; updates on New York relatives and Beth's teaching assignments; discusses clothing and a visit with Leon in Cambridge; description of Beaufort's May Day celebration; mentions her...

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Inquires about his activities in Beaufort and comments on books he has read; asks about his activities at camp; mentions her work with the Parent-Teacher Association in Beaufort and various lectures on health and nutrition she attended; discusses Herbert's upcoming admission examinations for Annapolis; mentions the Hirschfeld's spent ten days in Beaufort; comments on Leon and Beth's careers; discusses his acceptance to MUSC and a visit with Leon in Washington DC (shortly before she died).

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General correspondence sent to Beaufort during her many absences; inquiries about the children's activities and motherly advice and encouragement; some mention of her health condition.

Scope and Contents Congratulations on engagement to Charlie Wein; more congratulations and name suggestions for her sister's baby daughter; descriptions of the Keyserling relatives in Beaufort; mentions that William is constantly working and she had no other woman around (on St. Helena) to confide in; comments that St. Helena will finally have a country school with six pupils (Leon included) and one teacher; asks her mother and sister to send down "homemade fat" so she can add it to the "inferior beef" in the...

Scope and Contents Informs Pauline that she is one of the few friends that withstood the test of time; mentions her fear that William works so much and does not spend enough time with his growing children; expresses pleasure and surprise about Pauline's marriage; describes how a painter left all the windows open while painting the exterior of the Bay Street house; mentions Clover Club is studying Russia and its history, literature, music, etc; mentions a child, "Alfred" who she and William took care of for a...