CAMPBELL COUSINS CORRESPONDENCE
Harper, Washington,
October 10, 1923.
Dear Cousins:-
I want first to say that I am very glad
that I belong to the Campbells even if it is only forty‑secondly.
I still feel a pride in the fact.
I was never more thrilled in my life than
the one time I met with you all there in Nelson
and realized that all the good looking people around the tables
were my relations. You people who have been able to meet year
after year in that way have no idea what these letters mean to us,
who are so far away and I think Cousin
Will is doing a fine thing in keeping up the family love and
pride by these letters.
I was a very small girl when we left
Nelson for Brainerd, Minnesota, which was then the far West, as I
know my poor Mother felt then,
but some of the impressions made before that on my childish mind
have always remained. My dear Grandmother,
"Aunt Sally", as every one else called her, has always seemed a
very real person to me, and I can see her yet, getting ready for
church, putting a few peppermints in her pocket for me and a few
cloves for herself; then the lovely walk down the road and through
the old covered bridge, and then the visits among the relatives
and friends. Reading over these letters has seemed almost like
some of those visits where each one was mentioned and their joys
and sorrows stared. I often wonder if we are not missing a great
deal by not having more of these friendly visits. We of the West
at least seem always in a hurry and must have something doing all
the time.
The West is beautiful and I am sure there
could never be any other home for me now. Our place which we have
named "Firmond" is just about an hour's ride by ferry from
Seattle, where my husband is employed in the Alaska Steamship
Company offices, and where, by the way, we have a fine market for
all our produce, said produce being mostly flowers. Our gardens
today are still ablaze of color and I am sending in baskets of
flowers every day. Roses are in bloom all down the path to the
front gate while beyond the gate stretch the blue waters of Puget
Sound. In the distance on the left are the snow capped Olympics
and on the right the Cascades with old Mt. Ranier in their midst.
Do you wonder we love it even in the rainy weather?
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(Sarah Campbell Family)
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