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@alice_austen_house:organization {type: "museum", location: @staten_island, name: "Alice Austen House Museum"}
@file_pinax:document {title: "Elizabeth Strong to Alice Austen Correspondence", creator: @elizabeth_strong, institution: @alice_austen_house, created: @date_1892_03_28, language: "en", subjects: ["Personal correspondence","Victorian social life","Family matters","New Brunswick","Staten Island","Nursing training","Franco-Prussian War"], description: "Collection of correspondence from Elizabeth B. Strong to Alice Austen, discussing personal and family matters, social events, and local news from New Brunswick and Staten Island in March 1892."}
@elizabeth_strong:person {full_name: "Elizabeth B. Strong", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "Correspondent"}
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Alice Austen", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "Photographer"}
@rosebank:place {city: @staten_island, description: "Neighborhood on Staten Island"}
@new_brunswick:place {state: @new_jersey, country: @united_states}
@letter_march_27_1892:document {date: @date_1892_03_27, from: @elizabeth_strong, to: @alice_austen, location: @new_brunswick, title: "Letter from Elizabeth Strong to Alice Austen"}
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@file_1892_3_28_march_13003_strong_copy_jpg -> part of -> @letter_march_27_1892
@file_1892_3_28_march_13004_strong_copy_jpg -> part of -> @letter_march_27_1892
@file_1892_3_28_march_13005_strong_copy_jpg -> part of -> @letter_march_27_1892
@file_1892_3_28_march_13006_strong_copy_jpg -> part of -> @letter_march_27_1892
@mrs_bishop:person {role: "German agency proprietor"}
@elizabeth_mother:person {relation: "mother of @elizabeth_strong"}
@theodore:person {relation: "brother of @elizabeth_strong"}
@mrs_woodbridge:person {role: "friend", assistance: "provided carriage and food"}
@eva:person {interest: "reading 'David Grieve'"}
@mr_barton:person {relation: "friend of @alice_austen"}
@helen_wilson:person {relation: "subject of @mr_barton’s attentions"}
@alice_cooper:person {interest: "training school for nurses"}
@drury_cooper:person {mentioned: true}
@john_de_witt:person {travel_destination: @denver}
@denver:place {state: @colorado, country: @united_states}
@mr_ellings:person {plans: "going abroad"}
@mr_white:person {social: true}
@mr_simpson:person {stay: "in town for a few weeks"}
@cousin_kate_melville:person {relation: "cousin of @elizabeth_strong"}
@mr_simon:person {mentioned: false}
@ruthlins:family {type: "family"}
@travellers_club:organization {type: "club", location: @new_york}
@lecture_french_prussian_war:event {date: @date_1892_03_28, location: @travellers_club, topic: @franco_prussian_war}
@elizabeth_strong -> corresponded with -> @alice_austen {when: @date_1892_03_27, via: @letter_march_27_1892}
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @mrs_bishop
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @elizabeth_mother
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @theodore
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @mrs_woodbridge
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @eva
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @mr_barton
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @helen_wilson
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @alice_cooper
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @drury_cooper
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @john_de_witt
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @mr_ellings
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @mr_white
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @mr_simpson
@elizabeth_strong -> mentioned -> @cousin_kate_melville
@elizabeth_strong -> attended -> @lecture_french_prussian_war {companions: [@ruthlins]}
@alice_austen_house -> holds -> @file_pinaxMiss E. A. Austen Rosebank. Staten Island. N.Y.
place in the city with her brother, so preferred to take that. Of course I was vexed, but that did no good. So I tried at Mrs. Bishop's German agency, and finding no one there came home on the 11.10 train. It was as I feared, Mother had no one except a woman by the day. The waitress who was to have come on Thursday New Brunswick March 27th '92 My dear Alice:— Have just come in from church, and though I am sleepy enough to go to bed, will send you a few lines, and return the dollar. Many thanks for it. As it happened I did not require it for the girl went back on me—found she could 'get a
decided to stay where she was, and did not think it necessary to send any word to us. However, a girl applied last night and engaged to come Monday night, and the next thing will be to secure a cook. You see it was quite time I came home. Met Cousin Kate Melville and Mr. White going on the boat yesterday morning, and as Cousin Kate went over to talk "Infirmary" to Mrs. Emmons, Mr. White and I had it all our own way. He was good fun as usual; wanted to know if I was coming to spend the summer on the Island, to which I assented of course. He said I promised to last year and then only stayed a few days. Mr. Simpson is in town for a few weeks (N.Y. I mean) but Mr. White says
true, though it came quite straight. Mr. Ellings is now talking of going abroad so Drury Cooper tells me; John De Witt goes to Denver this week. Went to church in all the rain this morning, but Mrs. Woodbridge was good enough to bring me home in her carriage. She is the kindest woman; this morning before breakfast she left over a lot of delicious radishes just picked, and this afternoon over came her waitress with a great plate of rolls for tea! She even offered to come over and help about the housework. Today we have gotten on very nicely; our German woman came at noon and stayed until after tea, did all the dishes and clearing up. Found a letter from Eva waiting for me. She is reading "David Grieve" and wants my opinion of it. Considering I was only
Going to write a few lines, I have certainly done very well. Remember you agreed to mend your ways and write more gently in future. Mother sends love, and Theodore his regards. The others are scattered with much love for yourself and kindest remembrances for all. As ever yours, Elizabeth B. Strong I saw your friend Mr. Barton as we came off the boat. His attentions to Helen Wilson do not amount to anything. I heard something today which will interest you—that Alice Cooper intends going to The training school for nurses, and will begin quite soon. Whether she just means to take the course for the sake of the instruction, or whether she means to be a nurse I cannot say. Indeed the report may not be
This is a gorgeous day. I am booked for the dressmaker's this P.M. and to-night go with the Ruthlins to a lecture before the "Travellers' Club" on the Franco-Prussian War. With much love from Mother and myself, Aff'ly and hastily, Elizabeth Wednesday A.M. My dear Alice: I send at last the handkerchief, which is a trifle late as a birthday gift, but it will prove no less useful, I hope. We have one domestic, a waitress and apparently by a very nice girl if her strength holds out. She is said to be delicate.
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