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10-06-2012, 03:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2012 03:11 PM by Rob Wick.)
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RE: On the Tarbell Trail
Today I got a package from Smith College in Massachusetts which has some of Tarbell's letters to and from John S. Phillips and J. McCan Davis.
The letters to Phillips were especially moving, given that some of them were written just a few short months before Tarbell's death in 1944. In some she laments her inability to type, which she took up just a few years before her death, as well as how "Mr. Parkinson" is making his presence known (she suffered from Parkinson's Disease). What really struck me, though, was the letters she wrote by hand. She was so insistent on making herself understood that she spent hours on a two-page letter. Her stamina and strength are amazing, and though I'm something of a cynic about such things, they are inspirational. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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