The Courtship letters~ Clarence & Alice

Courtship Letters ~ Alice's Response

We get to read Alice's response to Clarence's letters today.  For previous installments go here for 1st installment, 2nd installment, 3rd installment and 4th installment.

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The Courtship Letters~ A Perceived Impropriety

Young Clarence as a senior at Amherst 1886

Alice at the time of her marriage 1891

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Clarence was an instructor of Greek and Latin at at Carleton College when he met Alice who was a young music teacher there as well. Apparently it was seen as inappropriate for teachers to be dating each other. In addition to that it seems that Clarence wasn't quite in the position to propose marriage yet and that also added to the hesitancy to be public at that time.

Previous installments can be found here (1st installment) (2nd installment) (3rd installment)

Next week will include Alice's response. 

Courtship Letters and an Anniversary

This is the third installment of the courtship letters of my great- grandfather Clarence Hayward White to Miss Alice Heald (my great- grandmother)

You may find the first installment here and the second installment here.

Some folks have asked if there are any responses from Miss Heald and the answer is yes in a coming installment as well as an implied impropriety.

And celebrating the fruits of another courtship,

Today is our 3rd Anniversary of our DIY wedding complete with a feeding moose!

And here are my vows from that day~

David Cory,

In our first year together we slept in over 30 different beds.

In our second year we entirely lost count.

In our two years together we’ve travelled through nine countries already, by express boat, river boat, luxury tourist boat, rickety Indonesian ferry, sleeper train, tuk tuk, motorbike, bicycle, taxi, tri-shaw, cho -choo train and  funky old buses. Travelled the Irawaddy and the Mekong and camped on the Yukon.

From lavish accomodations to a bed a bed bug infested guest house.

From drinking rot-gut local moonshine to high dollar scotch.

I’ve found the man that I can do all of these things with and have fun doing it with.

David Cory, my Cory man - the man with abundant high energy,

My battery charger, 

my energizer bunny

giver and sharer of enthusiasm

The source of warmth on a cold winter’s night, 

My hot water bottle.

 My sincerest vow is to try to keep up with you, pamper you and keep my heart accepting and open to all you have to offer.

Keeping up with him has been the hardest part!

The Courtship Letters~ Second Installment

This is the second installment of a transcript of the letters of courtship from my great grandfather Clarence Hayward White to Alice Heald in 1888. To see the first installment go here.

I will be getting some pictures of them in the next few weeks  that I'll post so you can see what my great grandparents looked like.

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Just so you have a photo to look at, this a photo their daughter, my grandmother, Marion Hayward White on the Championship team taken in 1914 or 1915 when she was attending Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Marion is on the far left.

A Courtship

The letters of courtship of my great-grandfather have come into my possession and I have decided to share them with you. I'm thinking of doing them on a weekly installment. Every Wednesday I'll post some as they are quite lengthy. I'll divide them up into segments. One of the first letters is six pages long! These are not in his original hand which was had quite a flourish but typewritten copies. My mother wasn't ready for me to whisk the originals off to Alaska. She had won the typing service at a church auction and chose to have his letters typed up. 

Unfortunately I have no pictures of him and my great grandmother but I'm hoping that my mom will dig some out for me soon so I can post on another installment.

My great grandfather Clarence Hayward White became the head of the English Department of Colby College in Waterville, Maine and married Alice Heald that became a music teacher at the same college.

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Here's how his great- great grandson impresses his gal these days.

My son and I did some scavenging at the dump in the nearby woods. 

Scores of cars and other wondrous piles of rusty objects are scattered through nearly an acre.

He found this car horn or blower, we're not sure which, and artfully fashioned it with some gold spray paint into a hanging flower vase  for his girlfriend.

I think he's less than thrilled at having his picture taken here.