Margaret Sellers' Friendship Book Entries 29 and 30 January 1902

 29 and 30 January 1902

Family member, Margaret Garrett's entries
are writings from Clara Elizabeth Choate
and Sarah Chauncy Woolsey,
whose pen name was Susan Coolidge.

So Close to Publishing

 So Close to Publishing
The feeling of "it's almost done"
is filling my every moment.

My co-author, Allen Roberts, and I
are inching closer to publication.
As we sift through the changes suggested
by our editor, we can see light at the end of the tunnel.

It's all about architect Richard Kletting.

(USHS photo)

Margaret Sellers' Friendship Book

 25 and 26 January 1902 entries

in Madge's book are from Mary Cruwys

Mary was on her own from a young age
 as her parents died early. 

She often traveled abroad with a close friend,
Dr. Mary Brown.

She quotes Shakespeare,
 Whittier and Wordsworth.

Margaret Sellers' Friendship Book

 Madge Sellers has written in her Friendship Book

for 23 and 24 January 1902

Both days she quotes Wordsworth

Mattie Shipley Culver's Autograph Book

 Mattie Shipley Culver's Autograph Book
This entry is, again, from a different book than
Madge Sellers'.
No entry on this day in 1902 for Madge, so enjoy
a personal message to Mattie from Joseph Orchard in 1881.

Mattie E. Fuller's Autograph Album

 Mattie E. Fuller's Autograph Album

Another page from an autograph book from my collection.

Mattie Fuller lived in Vermont and she received her
album as a gift from her father on Christmas Day in 1876.

The page below is from a friend, Edith A. Butterfield.
"May only enough clouds gather o'er your path,
To make a glorious sunset."

Margaret Sellers Friendship Book 19 and 20 January 1902

 19 and 20 January 1902

A tribute to Queen Victoria
It was almost a year since her death on 22 January 1901.
Poems by Tennyson and Browning.

Margaret Sellers Friendship Book

 17 and 18 January 1902

Mary Brown's entry in Madge Sellers Friendship Book
Another of Madge's family members
Mary quoted both Marcus Aurelius and Lord Tennyson.

Margaret Sellers Friendship Book

 Anna A. Sellers

15 and 16 entry in Madge's Friendship Book.

Anna was Madge's sister-in-law.
Anna was married to Richard Sellers in 1900.
Anna quotes author and poet Josiah Gilbert Holland in her entry.

Photo of Josiah Gilbert Holland
author of this quoted Cradle Song.

By uncredited - Biographical encyclopedia of Massachusetts of the nineteenth century. v.2. Boston: Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving Company. 1883. page 180, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25580482

This wiki article is good background on J. G. Holland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gilbert_Holland

Margaret Sellers Friendship Book

 Ellen Warner (Johnson's) Entry

in Madge's 1902 Friendship Book

13 and 14 January 1902
Family member Ellen Warner (Johnson) quotes William Channing Gannett in her entry.
Interestingly Gannett has ties to other research I have done for different projects.
He was a Unitarian minister, named after the American Unitarianism founder, William Ellery Channing.
Gannett was even baptized by Channing.

My other research that ties to Unitarianism is for Mattie Shipley Culver.
Her husband, Ellery Channing Culver, was from the same New England area.,
and obviously named for Channing.

William Ellery Channing had his first parish in Milwaukee, my home town.
His background as an abolitionist and supporter of women's right to vote makes me like the quote that Ellen Warner.

William Ellery Channing 

Background on Channing can be found here:
https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/william-channing-gannett/

Margaret Sellers Friendship Book

Sarah P. Sellers

Sarah P. Sellers, a family member, signed Madge's Friendship book on 11 and 12 January 1902.

Antelope Island Sunset

 Antelope Island Sunset

Margaret Sellers Friendship Book

 Margaret Sellers Friendship Book

Ellen Warner Johnson signed Madge's book on
9 and 10 January 1902.

Ellen was one of many friends to attend Madge's wedding in 1916

A Page From Mattie Shipley's Autograph Book

A Page From Mattie Shipley's Autograph Book

Here is an entry from another autograph book
because 8 January 1902 was another date not included in
Madge Sellers Friendship Book.

Mattie Shipley Culver is a woman I have written
about using home sources which led me to primary sources.

Home sources were the clue to Mattie's history.
This autograph book provided the answers to Mattie's past,
her family and her co-workers.

The Orchard family members from Schenectady, New York
were special friends to Mattie.

J. E. Orchard signed more than once using an artistic hand.

My House Transformed

 My House Transformed

My house was built in 1902 with a 1915 addition
that, according to the permit was said to be a "store."
So the house had two entrances, one to the main house
and one to the addition.

Of course that was way before my time.

I have photos from the 1940s to present to see
the transformation of the house.

This porch would become part of the house over time.

Wooden frame fencing once stood in front on the house.

The large, long windows at the front were eventually "modernized."

The house was repainted in 2022.
This is a photo of it in January 2024.

Maggie Smith's Autograph Book

 Maggie Smith's Autograph Book

The Friendship Book of Madge Sellers
which I have been posting, has no entry for 7 January 1902.

Since I have numerous autograph books, I decided to share a page from
a different book.
This entry is from an 1884 autograph book that belonged to Minnie Smith.
No date on the page but I love the drawing.
It was a common image in this time period.
Minnie received her book as a gift on 25 December 1884
from Mrs. M. L. Kohner.
The entries are from Baltimore, Maryland.

Friendship Book of Madge Sellers

 Friendship Book of Madge Sellers

This is the entry of Edith Johnson Fussell
for the 5th and 6th of January 1902.

Below see the 1880 census when she, and her husband Linnaeus
and daughter Ellen, were living in her parents household.

Edith lived until 1914 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
She was 61 years old.

Friendship Book of Madge Sellers

 Friendship Book of Madge Sellers

Friend Mary W. Akinson (Atkinson) added entries for
3 and 4 January 1902.
On the 3rd Akinson posted an image of historic Buckingham Meeting House
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
It was built in 1768 and the image is from 1900.
I have added an current image below.

Akinson's 4 January entry is an excerpt from Harriet Beecher's Little Foxes.

It was first published in 1866.

By Smallbones - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17556516

Margaret Garrett Seller's 1902 Friendship Album

 Margaret Garrett Seller's 1902 Friendship Album

I collect interesting autography books of the past.
Although this book isn't an autograph book as such,
it is a friendship album.

I will share each day of Margaret's 1902 album through the year.
Just a bit of background on her. Her nickname was Madge.
She was the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Taylor Sellers
was born in in April 1869.
She and her family members and many of her friends were Quaker.
She was living in Delaware County, Pennsylvania when she kept her album.

This is an "introduction" to the album and the first and second of
January 1902 entries.

I'm not sure who the author of the "introduction" is
however Marge wrote the first two of the year,
quoting poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox.