Sunday, March 17, 2024

Madge Sellers' shares her 17 and 18 March 1902 Friendship Book

Madge Enters the dates
17 and 18 March 1902

Happy St. Patrick's Day
and a tribute by Jacob Riis




 

A bit about Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis Documentary


Friday, March 15, 2024

Madge Sellers' Friends

 15 and 16 March 1902

Family and Church friends George MacDonald
and Mary Brown
pen spiritual entries for Madge
in her Friendship Book.



Wednesday, March 13, 2024

13 and 14 March 1902 from Madge Sellers' Friendship Book

 


Margaret Sellers added two poems
to her Friendship Book.

The first is Little Rivers by
Henry Van Dyke.


Photo by Harris Ewing

The second selection is from the writing
of Lucy Larcom

Her biography can be found here:

Lucy Larcom

Monday, March 11, 2024

The 1902 Friendship Book

 11 and 12 March 1902

Mary W. Atkinson add thoughts for these two days.
She is thinking of her religious
community. 



Sunday, March 10, 2024

Margaret Sellers' Friendship Book 10 March 1902

 10 March 1902

Margaret enters writing of two authors.
A Wordsworth poem, one of her favorites,
and author Elizabeth von Armin.


I have not yet read "The Solitary Summer" that Madge quotes,
but I know this will be a perfect one for me.


Thursday, March 7, 2024

Margaret Sellers' Friendship Book 7 and 8 March 1902

 Anna Sellers
shares two poems.

Both of these selections were popular in
printed media of the day.


Wednesday, March 6, 2024