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114, UNFOLDING YEARS to be a source of the greatest help to me. I corresponded with my relatives in Iowa, my nephew Fred Hoyt, and my great niece Ruth Jenkins. Another correspondent, Jennie Titus, one of my Des Moines friends, had survived Hattie Hoff only a year or two. I heard occasionally from Jean Ohern now living in Oklahoma City, Olka., and others of my long time friends. Anna Dawson, who had been in our home for two years, wrote every other month and I did the same. I had good neighbors and they were always more than willing to help me. The telephone kept me in touch with a host of friends in Washington. Lucy Cardwell came at least once a week. Mrs, Maxwell had become very dear to me and she and her good husband. Doctor Maxwell, a retired dentist, were often with me in my home and I had many pleasant days with them in their apartment. Through Mrs. Maxwell I came to know members of her PEO Chapter and sometimes attended their luncheons; they were all wonderful to me. I had occasional visits from my old friends at the Library of Congress; also Violet Savage with whom I had worked so long her sister Daisy and others. Lillian was an excellent cook. She could prepare and serve a meal most acceptably and what was even better she enjoyed my having company. I too loved to entertain and it was great pleasure for me to have many of these good friends in for luncheons or dinners. I had two friends at the Home for the Blind who spent a week with me each summer. One of these was Catherine Grady, who had been one of my helpers at the Library and who had now taken up her residence at the Home. The other was Lillian Latimer. Just aa month after my sister's death H. Randolph Latimer, Lillian's brother had passed away. Our common sorrow brought us very close together and we have remained so. Susie Duffy, another of my blind assistants at the Library, had retired three years after I did and gone to live with a niece near Baltimore, Md. She had many friends in Washington and I invited her to come once or twice a year and spend two or three
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114, UNFOLDING YEARS to be a source of the greatest help to me. I corresponded with my relatives in Iowa, my nephew Fred Hoyt, and my great niece Ruth Jenkins. Another correspondent, Jennie Titus, one of my Des Moines friends, had survived Hattie Hoff only a year or two. I heard occasionally from Jean Ohern now living in Oklahoma City, Olka., and others of my long time friends. Anna Dawson, who had been in our home for two years, wrote every other month and I did the same. I had good neighbors and they were always more than willing to help me. The telephone kept me in touch with a host of friends in Washington. Lucy Cardwell came at least once a week. Mrs, Maxwell had become very dear to me and she and her good husband. Doctor Maxwell, a retired dentist, were often with me in my home and I had many pleasant days with them in their apartment. Through Mrs. Maxwell I came to know members of her PEO Chapter and sometimes attended their luncheons; they were all wonderful to me. I had occasional visits from my old friends at the Library of Congress; also Violet Savage with whom I had worked so long her sister Daisy and others. Lillian was an excellent cook. She could prepare and serve a meal most acceptably and what was even better she enjoyed my having company. I too loved to entertain and it was great pleasure for me to have many of these good friends in for luncheons or dinners. I had two friends at the Home for the Blind who spent a week with me each summer. One of these was Catherine Grady, who had been one of my helpers at the Library and who had now taken up her residence at the Home. The other was Lillian Latimer. Just aa month after my sister's death H. Randolph Latimer, Lillian's brother had passed away. Our common sorrow brought us very close together and we have remained so. Susie Duffy, another of my blind assistants at the Library, had retired three years after I did and gone to live with a niece near Baltimore, Md. She had many friends in Washington and I invited her to come once or twice a year and spend two or three
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