Name/Title
AU Smith, Malcolm Lambert - 1991-11-30 letter to Paul J. Harris Jr.Entry/Object ID
2013.2.39Context
1330 Massachusetts Ave, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 29005
November 30, 1991
Paul Harris
3923 Seeley Ave.
Downers Grove IL 60515
Dear Paul,
I hang my head in shame for not writing to you for such a long time. A clipping is enclosed giving a partial excuse but I am sorry.
Thank you for sending my mother's 1955 letter to your grandmother. It is now placed in the rear of your booklet of Aunt Bertha's bio. Did I tell you that her letters to Linn Smith from 1900 to 1906 were finally discovered when the house was cleaned out for sale? They were carefully hidden among boxes of his Ohio State days. Margaret has the originals of all those letters after she typed them. I am glad to see any of her letters, of course.
Your comment on identifying Mary Ann Vernon Embree is interesting and I will examine that picture carefully when you return the Edgerton book. Doris Lambert Braley and her daughter came by for lunch and Lambert conversation a second time. I am very glad you got that trunk from Dan Lambert and hope you have been able to organize the contents for use.
The footnotes you have developed certainly help to make the old biographical material understandable to us today. You spoke of Eliza Hopkins’ "Apple Blossoms" and I would like to see that. Thank you also for the corrected death date for Daniel W. Lambert. I expect my date was that of a news notice.
How is your family situation at this time —are the children with you and if so how is that working? Also, I wonder if your Midway
job is now in question. The growing unemployment is now affecting so many people Bush is way behind in beginning to plan for some corrective action on the domestic economic front.
For Thanksgiving I was out with Jim and Sara of the J. Arthur Harris family. There were eleven of us at the table but not all were cousins. On Dec. 19 I will be flying to West Palm for ten days with Grace and family and then back here for end of year business
on the 30th. My grandson Daniel is back at Rice in Houston and I am anxious to know more on how he is doing.
I do hope you may be able to make a D.C. stop soon for long enough to get over here. With all good wishes,
Sincerely,
{Malcolm}
