Name/Title
AU Harris, Paul Joseph Jr. - 1991-01-04 letter to Malcolm Lambert SmithEntry/Object ID
1991.2.23Context
3923 Seeley Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515
January 4, 1991
Malcolm L. Smith
1330 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Apt 609
Washington, DC 20005
Dear Malcolm,
Thank you for your Christmas note from Florida. I trust that you had a pleasant visit with your daughter and her family. My fear is that this letter finds you back at home in the frigid north.
In the process of "organizing" I have found and transcribed a letter written by your mother to my grandmother, Bertha Lambert Harris. I am enclosing a copy of the transcript and am sending one to Stephen and Margaret as well. I don't feel comfortable
sending the original through the mail and would like your input as to where you think it should be placed for most effective preservation. I believe I may have a couple of other letters written by your mother and will forward them as I come upon them in the same manner. Please share your thoughts on this with me.
I am also enclosing the additional pages of Bertha Lambert's autobiography that were discovered this last summer. You should be able to install them at the rear of the booklet I sent you. You will note that these pages are footnoted for the unfamiliar reader. Eventually, I will do this with the entire story as well as index it for publication.
Do you have a copy of Eliza Rebecca Lambert Hopkins‘ story "Apple Blossoms?" She wrote it for her fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1938. It contains a marvelous section where she talks about her grandmother, Elizabeth Stanton Lambert. Let me know if you have not seen this and I will send it to you.
I must also mention that I had a conflict with your information concerning Daniel Webster Lambert's death. Some old copies of family group charts you did listed his death as 10 Jan 1918. I have obtained a copy of his death certificate which lists his date of death as 5 Jan 1918 and date of burial as 8 Jan 1918. Cemetery records at Otterbein verify the burial date as 8 Jan 1918 and an obituary in the "Telescope" verifies the date of death as 5 Jan 1918. You may already be aware of this and the chart I have was before your correction, but I wanted to pass this information along to you.
I must arrange a visit with you soon.
Sincerely,
