Photograph of Franklina Gray Bartlett shortly after her wedding day. Franklina is shown in the wedding gown that she purchased while in Paris (c.1876).
Writing to her mother from the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where Franklina and William honeymooned, Franklina wrote:
"If you send the Clarence over tomorrow couldn’t you pack my white satin & the veil handkerchief & gloves (&fan) & send them over for me to have my photo taken while here; it will save me the trouble of coming over for the purpose.
If I only had time I would tell you some of the compliments paid you to the house & the wedding. Several said that they should always remember the wedding as a beautiful fairy scene."
March 22, 1878, letters courtesy of Tracey Bartlett.
