Letter written to EMC from Margaret Frazer December 26 1912.
Margaret Frazer, Author
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Kaitangata
Dec 26th 1912
Dear Miss Collier,
You must think us very rude and cavalier for not writing sooner to tell you about the cabin. Mr Greenfield sent us the plan of the Turakina with your cabin market with a red cross, but as they are new cabins which have just been put on, they are drawn on the plan in ink and the number is so indistinct I can scarcely make it out. It looks like 115/6. Mr Greenfield says it is a splendid large two berth cabin, as large as the four berth ones. He says he choose it in preference to the smaller two berth cabin. I am writing to him to ask what the number really is and also if he will try and send a plan of the ship to you. I thought he would have sent one when he sent Mary’s. [illeg.] you will excuse Mary for not writing she has been kept so busy with one thing or another, she has gone on with her lessons up till the present. Doris [?] and I took influenza and Mary had to do all the work, then my Father and Mother took it and I had to be almost constantly with them. Father is almost helpless and Mother is blind so you will understand how it keeps us busy there is a lady who comes in for part of the day to look after them, otherwise they are dependent on us. This is the reason that we keep you waiting so long in letters. I had such a kind sympathetic letter from Mrs Scherek the other day – it quite cheered me up. She lives in Bedford Park and strange to say Mr Frazer’s cousin lives quite close to her, and they were school mates
in Dunedin some thirty years ago. Mrs Scherek wishes Mary to board near them, so that she can look after her personally, and also so that it will be easy for Mary to go to [illeg.] constantly – Miss Scherek plays the violin beautifully so I hope you will all have some real good times together. I am sure Mrs Scherek will be only too pleased to give you any motherly advice or help if you need it at any time. Did we ever tell you that Mary [illeg.] Miss Wesney in Dunedin, Miss W took her for afternoon tea one Saturday. I am afraid I must [illeg.] wait to write more, though I could go on for hours scribbling on paper to you, Mr F and the girls are out at a concert and I am writing as hard as my pen can go for fear that some one would come and interrupt me before I got this finished. I must say goodbye for the present. With best wishes for the coming year.
I remain
Yours Sincerely
Margaret Frazer
P.S. Some of us will write soon again if possible
Kaitangata
Dec 26th 1912
Dear Miss Collier,
You must think us very rude and cavalier for not writing sooner to tell you about the cabin. Mr Greenfield sent us the plan of the Turakina with your cabin market with a red cross, but as they are new cabins which have just been put on, they are drawn on the plan in ink and the number is so indistinct I can scarcely make it out. It looks like 115/6. Mr Greenfield says it is a splendid large two berth cabin, as large as the four berth ones. He says he choose it in preference to the smaller two berth cabin. I am writing to him to ask what the number really is and also if he will try and send a plan of the ship to you. I thought he would have sent one when he sent Mary’s. [illeg.] you will excuse Mary for not writing she has been kept so busy with one thing or another, she has gone on with her lessons up till the present. Doris [?] and I took influenza and Mary had to do all the work, then my Father and Mother took it and I had to be almost constantly with them. Father is almost helpless and Mother is blind so you will understand how it keeps us busy there is a lady who comes in for part of the day to look after them, otherwise they are dependent on us. This is the reason that we keep you waiting so long in letters. I had such a kind sympathetic letter from Mrs Scherek the other day – it quite cheered me up. She lives in Bedford Park and strange to say Mr Frazer’s cousin lives quite close to her, and they were school mates
in Dunedin some thirty years ago. Mrs Scherek wishes Mary to board near them, so that she can look after her personally, and also so that it will be easy for Mary to go to [illeg.] constantly – Miss Scherek plays the violin beautifully so I hope you will all have some real good times together. I am sure Mrs Scherek will be only too pleased to give you any motherly advice or help if you need it at any time. Did we ever tell you that Mary [illeg.] Miss Wesney in Dunedin, Miss W took her for afternoon tea one Saturday. I am afraid I must [illeg.] wait to write more, though I could go on for hours scribbling on paper to you, Mr F and the girls are out at a concert and I am writing as hard as my pen can go for fear that some one would come and interrupt me before I got this finished. I must say goodbye for the present. With best wishes for the coming year.
I remain
Yours Sincerely
Margaret Frazer
P.S. Some of us will write soon again if possible
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Letter written to EMC from Margaret Frazer December 26 1912. Written single sided (first two sheets) and double sided (last sheet) on three sheets of lined paper.
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Collection of The Edith Collier Trust, in the permanent care of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.
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Circa 1985