American lace history - Continuing from previous memo with letter 2, which was typed: November 23rd, 1918 on business stationery of The Needle and Bobbin Club stationery, President, Miss Gertrude Whiting, ( ) West 72nd Street, New York. The stationery includes the names of other officers: Vice-President Miss Marian Hague, Treasurer Mrs. Philip D. Kerrison, Librarian Mrs. Nathan W. Green, Corresponding Secretary Miss Frances Morris, Recording Secretary Miss Anna Mackenzie, Editor Mr. Richard C. Greenleaf. "My dear Mrs. Whitside, Mrs. M.E.M. Pelot's latest address is ( ) Ovington Avenue, Bay Ridge, New York: but she hops about like a hen on a hot gridiron, so ten to one this address is out of date. If you secure another, Kindly let me know as the club has lost track of her. I have put your plea for bobbins into the Needle and Bobbin Club Rag Market notes, thinking you might that way find what you want. If you wish wooden ones with hoop covers in either large or small size, you might ask Mrs. J.H. Hart, one of our life members, ( ) Buckingham Street, Waterbury, Connecticut. Thank you for the English address. I think my bobbins should arrive around Christmastime. I have quite a quantity, probably four dozen, of ordinary, modern, mediumly large wooden bobbins. I have not counted them. You may have the lot for two dollars and postage. I also have about the same quantity of very fine, tiny, antique walnut Swiss bobbins that you might have at fifty cents apiece. Hoping you have escaped the influenza, I am sincerely Gertrude Whiting" --------------- Here is letter 3, which was handwritten: February 12, 1923 on social stationery of The Needle and Bobbin Club, New York (with the N&BC logo at the top). "My dear Mrs. Whitside - I shall be sending you some bobbin lace patterns on approval today. See prices enclosed with this. Miss B. E. Merrill, P. O. Box ( ), Chataugua, New York has thread and small lace pins for sale. Very truly, Mabel H. Kerrison Please make check payable to The Needle and Bobbin Club" -------------- Jeri's comment: How interesting it is to read some of the business correspondence of those times.
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