Doris Holmes Blake - Correspondence with Lucy Wentworth Holmes, February - June 1935

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In the twenty-first century we use social media to keep up with the Joneses—but in all previous periods, analog passing of information was the way to learn what friends, family, acquaintances, and even strangers were up to. Lucy Wentworth Holmes, mother of Doris Holmes Blake, wrote letters to her daughter that are full of candid observations about those who orbited in her social circles. Lucy's remarks are clear-eyed but not cutting; the people she describes come to life in her missives to Doris. It's not hard to imagine that Doris's keen eye was honed at her mother's knee! Join your fellow volunpeers in digging into our latest batch of Doris Holmes Blake's correspondence.

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