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Ninetta Eames letter to George Wharton James

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Letter written at the Madrone Lodge, Glen Ellen to "My dear friend" [George Wharton James]. Eames relates that she is enclosing a card from her adopted daughter Lynette Payne McMurray and that he would be pleased with the contents. She is at the Madrona and is feeling better. Charmian and Jack [London] are settled in the lodge with servants and belongings. Jack looks fine to her, but Charmian looks stressed trying to keep pace with Jack. She mentions that George Sterling and his wife are to go on a duck hunt up the Sacramento for a month or longer. She notes with some consternation that while they were there at the Lodge for a week while she was gone, Sterling arrived drunk and stayed that way the whole time, upsetting the household. Ninetta says that she loves the peace of this retreat and will spend time in the lodge breaking in a new cook among other things. In midwinter she expects to attend to some business in Los Angeles, but extends and invitation to her friend to come for a visit. The Cummings and Gells still live with them and speak of him frequently. She mentions that the summer people are gone, but October is cherished. She writes: "Now that the rain has washed the earth & foliage, I go forth rejoicingly, every pulse in me attune to the widespread beauty of the world. I wish you could see all the colors in the vineyards, and the mass of golden leaf drapery on the ground under the maples."
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1909, September 30.
Call number
mssHM 30953
Creator
Eames, Ninetta (1852-1944)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Provenance unknown, in library as of January 4, 1967.
Dimensions
25 cm :
Associated people
James, George Wharton, (1858-1923,)
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