Evening star., 1937-05-23
Odd Letter Found Here
Tells Of 1905 Parties
Letter From Young London Woman to Dear
Charlotte" Discusses Recent Visit
to Canital.
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

With all the world intent upon the
gayety Of London's social season this
Maytime, it is interesting to scan the
Mollie Davis, who lives with her BROTH
er, Harry Davis, at 1921 Kalorama
road, has just located among their
possessions
Miss Mollie" as she is known to her
many young friends, is as bright, viva
c1ous and efficient today as she was
When years ago, as a pioneer teacher
OF cooking in Washington schools she
radlated homemaking ideals to sue
cessive generations of many of Wash
lngton's Oldest families from her head
quarters at the jefferson School.
The letter, recently brought to light
4rom long unopened old trunk, be-
gins Dearest Charlotte" Its author,
an unknown young woman, is identi-
ned only by the name Sophie" signed
At the end of her epistle.
We attribute to her charm beauty
and sparkle, and We judge, by her ref
erence to the fact that her mother is
ANXIOUS Tor her return for the London
season. that she is an English girl
visiting the United States with her
prother Thomas. Frankly she COM
ments, I am quite low-spirited at the
thought OF leaving America so soon,
"or the longer l remain, the more at
tached to the country I become. In
deed, cannot bear to think that per-
laps l shall not again see the dear
friends that shall be leaving behind
l shall certainly return at the first
opportunity, for I have not vet seen
Niagara, that great wonder of the
world"
Fastened With Sealing Wax
Written on double white lined FOOLS
cap paper about IL by 8 inches in
size, the fine angular penmanship
covers three sides of the folio. the
fourth or outer side being used for the
address. Sealing wax is substituted
Tor the gummed flap of the envelope
OF today.
Apparently neither the writer of
the letter nor the postmaster who re-
celVed 1t for transmission from New
YORK on April to Mrs. Charles CAL
vert. care of Mrs Norris. so Hanover
street, Baltimore, felt that a date was
necessary or important. None ap-
pears. philadelphia, April IA"
stamped In blue ink in a capacious
circle, is the only postmark upon it.
AS Benjamin Franklin established
the nrst postal system in America if
is 1aH 10 conjecture that Philadelphia.
the city with which he is generally as
soclated. might have had a larger
ana better system Of marking mail
than either New York, the city from
which the letter was sent. or Balti-
more, where it was received On the
otner hand, 1t is of course possible thai
thls letter may have come part of the
distance from New York by private
conveyance, and not have been Off
clallv mailed until it reached Phila.
delphia
Visited in Philadelphia.
from the letters content, IT. is owl
cent that, preparatory to her ship's
departure from New York, the writer
ana her brother Thomas are paying a
series OF farewell stop-owr visits in
washington, Baltimore and Philadel-
ph1a.
Chattily and discursively she COM
hents on the postponement of the fa
nous Russian Minister Bodisco's we'd
ding In Washington to the lovely
Harriet Beale Williams of George
town. so many years his junior that
sne contemplated union is referred
% AZ that Of December and Nav"
and she laments the fact that she
cannot be present at "his gorgeous
fete"