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Mrs Jennie Dunham Nantuck Island Nantucket, Mass 5 West Chester Street Dear Sister. Here is where I am now. A good number from Paw. Will write later Sister Emma

Notes: When Emma mentions that there are a good number (of people) from Pawtucket, you have to guess that she and her husband, Franklin, are attending a convention of some sort… perhaps an annual meeting of a fraternal order.

Mrs. Jennie Dunham Nantucket Island Nantucket, Mass Dear J. What is the reason I do not get a card or letter from you. I still have a cough. But am not sick. Tell Mrs. Turner she would better come up for the Leah anniversary the 26th of Oct. 3…

Notes: Mrs. Turner? Leah anniversary? – clearly connected with some fraternal organization: Mason, IOF, etc… but which?

Mrs. Jennie Dunham Nantucket, Mass Dear Aunt Jennie, Have been intending to drop you a line of thanks for the things you sent me in the spring but thought I would wait until I could send it on an interesting card. Gen. Stark was born near…

Notes: The card was initially ‘Missent’ (and marked as such) to Nantasket, Mass, instead of Nantucket, Mass. “Lovingly….” A concluding thought frequently employed by Rhoda’s mother.

Mrs Jennie Dunham Nantucket Island Nantucket, Mass. 5 West Chester Street Dear J. I have sent a box. I hope you get it all right. It left Pawt. at noon. It is paid. I do not know if I have sent all I said. Sorry I could not get ties. …

Notes: The box may have contained materials for Jennie’s work as a dressmaker. The 1910 Federal Census, conducted on Nantucket in May, indicated that Sarah Jane (Jennie) and her son, Nelson Olney Dunham were living on Cliff Road. Her occupation…

Mrs. Jennie Dunham Nantucket Island Nantucket, Mass. Dear Sister, I cannot see why you did not get the box last Sat. It was sent Fri. A.M. Mabel Polsey was married yesterday the 5th to a catholic. Franklin has gone to the Brockton Fair. I…

Notes: Polsey – almost certainly a family known to both Emma and Jennie from childhood. The 1910 Federal Census recorded a Polsey family in Meriden, Connecticut. The household was headed by Clarence. He had been married to Lillian for 24 years. …