CAMPBELL COUSINS CORRESPONDENCE
211 10th Street N.E.,
Washington, D.C
June 10, 1923.
Dear Cousins:-
This
project being so new I hardly know how to go about my first
letter; however, I hope to gain so many suggestions from the
incoming combined letters, that the next one may be of more
interest to all.
Our family, consisting of my
daughter,
Mary B. Snavely,
her husband
Albert B. Snavely,
and my daughter Florence H.
Bosard, with myself, comprise the representatives of
John M. Bosard;
one other daughter,
Eleanor Bosard Wooster,
having died March 10, 1914.
Mary has lived in Washington since
1911, and Florence and I came in August, 1918. We have all made
our home together since that time. During our residence here, we
have been visited by the following Cousins,- Tommie
and
Frank [Parks Campbell],
Grace [CAMPBELL
Mowrey] Buck Carey, and sister Anna
and
husband [Andrew Owlett], and have
had calls from
Lou [CAMPBELL]
Young and Charlie
Congdon some years ago. We have been very fortunate in
being permitted to live in the nations capital, and if, at any
time any of the Cousins can make it convenient to visit "their
city and mine", they will be very welcome in our home.
Washington has just experienced
the greatest week ever known here. The National Shrine
Convention was held here and the city was filled with visitors
from every state in the Union, and also from Canada and
Honolulu. Estimated 400,000 visitors, leaving in the city
$25,000,000.
I, with my family, fully
appreciate the manner in which we have been taken into the folds
of the Campbell Family all of these years, and these courtesies
will go down in history in our little circle. Our greatest
regret is that the other members of our family could not have
lived to enjoy these privileges.
We also feel that we are indebted
to our Secretary "pro tem"
for the effort he has put forth in the matter of the Clearing
House, and trust that generations to come will be greatly
benefited by the records produced.
With best wishes to all of the
Cousins from all my family, I am