Name/Title
AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1896-04-24 letter to Joseph Hastings HarrisEntry/Object ID
1990.1.292Context
[Westerville, OH, to Mr. J. H. Harris, Ada, Ohio, Lock Box 28]
Westerville O., Apr. 24, '96.
Mr. Harris
Ada O.
My Darling Joe: — I shall begin this day by having a talk with you. Any thing “well begun is half done” so I think it will be a good day.
This has been the busiest week I ever saw (I think) and I hope I may not have to have many more like it. However the busy part is past now and I hope to take it a little easier. Next Sat. evening we hold an anniversary of the organization of the Y.W.C.A. at Westerville. I wish you might attend. I hope we may soon be situated so we can be together more. However I am not getting impatient. What do you think? I have had an invitation to the “Junior Banquet” (with Ira). I have tried to plead off but he insists that I should go. I hardly know what to do about as I have so much on hands. Father is at home again this week. He seems to feel slighted because you do not come when he is at home(?). I think you will have to make him a visit. When I spoke to father & mother about the mission work, they said nothing about you at all and so I did not. I thought it would be just as well to leave that part awhile if they did not mention it.
I surely think we are not stanch [sic] volunteers until we are ready to sign the pledge. It seems a great step to me, and yet I think we should think it over seriously, and as soon as possible act. All volunteers that I have talked with say it is much easier to work in any thing of that kind after you let the world know what you expect to do.
If you wish to take cooking lessons, come down and I will try and arrange terms. But I fear you will not have a very good teacher. We rec'd a letter from Ida: they are at Oskaloosa Kas.
I am sorry I must close for this time. I am still
Your one true one
Bertha Lambert.
