Name/Title
AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1896-05-08 letter to Joseph Hastings HarrisEntry/Object ID
1990.1.294Context
[Westerville, OH, to Mr. J. H. Harris, Ada, Ohio, Lock Box 28]
Westerville O., May 8, '96.
Mr. H. Harris,
Ada, O.
My dear Joe: — This morning while everything looks so beautiful and happy, I will spend a short time with you. This has surely been the most beautiful spring I ever witnessed. Every morning seems to outrival every other in beauty and grandeur. I have wished that I were an artist that I might preserve some of these beautiful sights.
Your letter brought a great inspiration with it, and Carrie laughed when I said, “What a good letter!” Everything will be hurry and bustle from this until commencement is over. I have been favored with a committee meeting every day but one this week, and they are likely to continue in that way. We will send at least two delegates to Lake Geneva.
Last Tues. evening we had a splendid address on “City Missions” by Mrs. Whitney who has been attending “Moody's Training School” during the past year. All the expense connected with the school is board and room rent, and one is engaged in some kind of active mission work in the city.
As she talked of the suffering and distressed that they meet when engaged in the work, my heart almost bled in pity.
I really long to be engaged in some work of that kind. What can bring greater enjoyment that helping others in some way?
You spoke of the bibles; I prefer one with the helps. I think they are more handy that way than with the helps in an extra book.
Today we received a letter from Ida; they are well and seem to be enjoying life. Father had asked several questions about Arthur and Nellie. Without Arthur's knowledge Ida copied one of his school essays on the subject “Fire.” Without any exception it surely excels any thing I ever heard for a boy of his age. It really sounds like some great philosopher. His teachers told Ida there was great things in the future for him. They now live near a good college and I think expect to put him in school next year (I am glad I have some smart relations).
You need not continue the Herald after you leave school; I will not care for it after you leave the school. I thank you so much for it. It has indeed been a source of happiness to me, as all your kindnesses have been. I believe I am looking forward to comm. as anxiously as those who are going home, but possibly not for the same reason.
I am very anxious to secure some kind of work for the summer that will bring in something, but I feel like I could put in the time very profitably right here at home.
Possibly the latter would be the more pleasant in many ways but “Business first and pleasure next,” so I hardly know what to do. But I hope we can have a more convenient time to discuss all such topics soon, so I will bring my talk to a close and go to talk with Prof. Scott.
Yours lovingly,
Bertha Lambert.
