Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-05

Were you to receive precisely the holiday that
you asked for, you would have to turn back the
wheels Of time, for your letter was dated last
year!
Mrs. Clement Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Ire
mont, Boston:
ST.. JUDEs REcroRY, MINNEAPOLIS May Is.
Dear Aunt Lucy:-We are getting on
famously with our preparations for the sum-
mer. Dear Clement is full Of his visit to
England, and am sure that he will have a de-
llghtful time. The bishop has given him a
letter of introduction to the bishop of London
and another to Dean Rumford of Canterbury,
SO very desirable introduction to the best
clerical society is assured to him. He expects
to sail from New York on the City of Paris
June and to sail from London on the same
vessel on September 4. This will bring him
back to New York In plenty of time to get home
to preach on the next Sunday, the 14th. He
expects to write his sermon on the voyage. 1t
would be delightful to go with him, but this
ls impossible on account Of the children. l
have engaged board for the summer at a small
but very good hotel in the White mountains
the Outlook house, Littleton, New Hampshire
and expect to be very comfortable there.
made a funny mistake in writing for my rooms
/ directed my first letter to Littieton, New
York. Wasn't it absurd?
Dear Clement expects to get some vestments
In London, where they make them SO well, you
know, and he has promised to bring me from
Paris-where he will spend fortnight-two
dozen pairs of gloves and six pairs of black
silk stockings. Fancy my having six pairs Of
black silk stockings at once. 1 shall feel like a
queen. The children are very well.
HI
The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement
Markham, Littleton, New Hampshire:
OK BOARD "CIrY OF PARIS"
June $3.50 pm.
stad with my brother Ronald last
night, and he and Van Cortlandt came down to
see me off. l barely caught the steamer, for
forgot my watch-left IL on the mantel piece in
Ronald's chambers-and did not remember it
until We were half way down town. Ronald
said, in his chatting way, that l left my head
somewhere when was boy, and that 1 have
been going around without it ever since.
wish that he and Van Cortlandt hadn't such
silly notions about my incapacity i'll the Ordin-
airy affairs of life-not that really mind their
nonsense, for you know how we'll love them
both. l am very glad that you consented to
go directly to the mountains instead of coming
to New York to see me off. There was great
crowd ON the dock. and much prefer to think
OF our tender parting. Be sure to
cable me on the 15th-the day that get to
London. The address, you know, is simply
element, London" and / am to arrange with
my bankers to have the dispatch sent to me.
Good bye, my-Here is the pilot.
~. g.
The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement
Markham, Littleton, New Hampshire:
ICable Dispatch.l
LONDON, June 16.
Why have you not cabled?
v.
The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement
Markham, Littleton, New Hampshire:
CHARINa Cross HOTEL,
LONDON June IT,
After cabled you this morning
remembered that hadn't arranged with the
bankers about my cable dispatches. When I
had rectiied this error of omission L received
your dispatch of yesterday. 1t was very
great relief to my mind to have direct news
from you, aud to know Of the safety and health
Of my loved ones, who are dearer to me y
VI.
The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement
Markham, Littleton, NH:
CHARINa Cross HOTEL. LONDON, Aug. 90.
Ihad delightful ortnight in Paris.
thought the gloves and the stockings
it was droll and not quite proper about buying
the stockings. l will tell you all about it when
get home. And l also bought you Something
Else that am sure will be pleasant surprise
TO you when you see it. y His lordship
DIR. -, has been kindness itself to me. dined
again at Lambeth Palace yesterdays farewell IL
dinner. l was little late, am sorry to say
u
Bridge, but his lordship very cordially ac-
cepted my excuses. At dinner l was seated
next to a very interesting man. who has charge
of large parish i'll the east end of London
SUCH poverty as there is in that wretched re-
gion and such moral depravity are sickening to
contemplate. Thank Heaven, there is nothing
like it IN Minneapolis.
shall sail (D.V) on the City Of Paris two
weeks from tomorrow. l think that the best
arrangement will be for you to come down to
your aunt Lucy's on the 18th, and on the 18th
(D.V) l will join you at her house in Boston,
whence We will start for home that evening via
the Boston and Albany. must be in New York
for few hours to see Ronald and to make the
final arrangements about the new stained glass
windows. Ii you prefer to meet me in New
York arrange matters with Ronald who will
meet you at the station and take you to hotel
As shall go directly to mis- Office on landing /
will find out at once what you have decided to
do. On referring to your letter OF the 10th
| perceive that you are afraid that
may have made some mistake about
the sizes of the stockings and gloves.
or course 1 got the right sizes; had it
written down: mo. Ga, long fingers" and No.
SO, narrow ankles" Don't fall INTO Ronald's
way OF fancying that always get things wrong
1t was about the narrow ankles that-But had
better wait and tell it to You when get home.
1t certainly was very droll. l have bought a
most satisfactory chasuble, very elegant in
hestated to buy so costly garment for my
self; but this is for the Service of the Sanctu-
airy. 1t will make something of stir among
the congregation, think, the first time that
wear it in dear st. Jude's. II, as is prob
able, go down into Wales next week, this will
be my last letter. My heart is full of joyful
thankfulness to think that so very soon / shall
see again (D.V) my own dear Margaret,
who
Mrs. Clement Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Tre-
mont, Boston:
LIrrLEToN, August 20.
Dear Aunt Lucy:-I have just received long
and delightful letter from dear Clement. He
had lovely time in Paris. and he has bought
me the gloves and the silk stockings, and also
something else; but he won't tell me what this
other thing is, for he means il to be a surprise.
Do you think it could possibly be the silk for
dress? He knows how much want new black
silk. But l shall not think about it, for don't
want to be disappointed. He has had such de-
lightful dinners with his lordship the Bishop of
London at Lambeth Palace. His lordship was
kindness ITSELF" Clement writes Clement
must have made a favorable impression, of
course. And Clement writes that he has bought
such love of chasuble. II will stir up the
whole congregation the first time that he wears
it, am sure.
II it is quite convenient to you, dear Aunt
Lucy, shall come down to you, with the nurse
and the children. ON the 18th. That is the day
that Clement will arrive in New York, and he
writes that he will come to Boston the next day
after seeing Ronald and attending to the final