The record-union., 1892-06-18
A PRIVATE LETTER.
It is Printed Because of its Charming
Style,
And Because it Tells OF Two Sacra-
mento Girls Now in Europe
Misses Heyman and Carley.

The following letter from Miss Kittie
Heyman, a native of Sacramento. and
who received her education in our schools,
was written to Mrs. q. Il. Hamilton of
this city, who has consented that it may
be given to print. since Miss Heyman and
Miss Gertie CarIey, also of Sacramento,
have SO many friends in this city who
have known them from early childhood.
The two young ladies left here some
months ago, under charge Of Mrs. Hey
man, for Europe. Miss Carley, who was
given complimentary concert here on
the eve Of her departure, To study vocal
music, and Miss Heyman to pursue the
study Of the piano, on which she was
already esteemed a performer of great
excellence and one ofthe most promising
Of our instrumentalists.
We present the letter without any
omissions, since it illustrates a happy
style and the art Of good letter writing, as
acquired by an earnest, high-minded
young woman:
STEGLIrzERsTRAIsE,6 81 (W. 35),
BERLIN, March Is, 1892.
Ny Dear MrS. Hamilton: When L
| wrote little characteristic postal card to
| you SO many months ago, | had no
| thought of its being so long before
! should again talk to you through the
medium of the 'peninkograph," but Ber-
| lin has really very little time for a town
Of its size. One might well expect more
| from it, After spending fo0r very happy
| days in Hamburg, our haven, in seeing
| its gallery, its suburbs, its old-time build
| ingS and in boating on the AlSter at the
| close of the sunny days and into the
moonlight, we came to this metropolis
and began to be busy.
! Up to this time we have not found time
/ to stop, but with Gertrude we are max
| ing great plans for a summer rest and
| iannt She is studying her art earnestly
with Nine. Marchesi in Paris, and in
connection with her singing she is de-
voting some time to French and Italian
| She writes me occasionally Of her work
and her encouragement, and she is surely
doing well. 1 am trudging along,
! trying to carve colored pictures out OF
| white ivory-a most difficult task,
assure you'll However, meet with more
| encouragement than | had dared to eX-
pect, and my teacher, Herr Professor
Heinrich Barth, VINO is court pianist,
SAYS kind things of my work that make
me look at him in amazement, for he is
neither fiattering nor conciliatory, ac-
! cording to others accounts. l have
| played at two of his soirees: the first
! time Bach Partida of seven parts and
the second time two Herself Studies and
q Chaplin Scherzo.
OF course, | have days of discourage
ment | believe no one who is striving
! does not, but / cannot work well then. so
! | manage to throw of the feeling bV
either walk through this beautiful
| Thiergarten, park OF hundreds Of acres,
or visit to the art galleries. They are
royalty worth seeing. So many wonder
! ful paintings by Raphael and Murillo,
and Rembrandt and Rubens and Titan
are here, and it is such a privi-
| lege to be allowed to stand be-
! fore them as long as one pleases
and go every day if he chooses. OF late
| [ have been devoting Saturdays to these
galleries, going Immediately after my
! lesson early in the morning and staying
until the afternoon dinner hour.
! | have often thought of the pleasure
! nv friends at home would have in gazing
at the masterpieces. and the thought has
! Impressed itself SO firmly upon my mind
/ that to-day when l saw a collection of
/ some of the pictures | could not resist
! sending it to you. OfcourSe one can have
no idea OF the exquisite coloriug, as for
/ instance, the green bodice against the
flesh tints in Rubens' ''St. Cecilia but
| the idea of the composition, its thought
and outline are at least faithfully repre-
| sented.
1 must leave you now, for thereis much
!
| Saens, which l am studying; it is late in
! the afternoon and this evening brings
with it a concert in which Oscar Raft,
one Of the leading teachers, is to play a
concerto Of his own. But tomorrow I
will tell you about it. ''Auf wieder-
| sehen."
/ If one might ever say it, tomorrow is
/ here. The concert is past leaving us the
memory of very pleasant evening. The
| American colony was out in body,
nearly everybody we know in Berlin
! being grouped about the tables in pretty
| philharmonic. The orchestra there num-
! bers about sixty men, and on the nights
when Won Bulow leads the number is in
creased by dozen or more. Then it be-
! comes a society affair, the tables are re-
/ moved, full dress is the rule, and the ad-
mission down stairs is 81 %, instead of
| 12I cents. We have had place for the
| season. ten concerts, in the balcony