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TREASURED FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS
May 5, 1953 Grandmother Phillips' last letter to Eleanor. Six days earlier she had
sent by insured mail a package of family photographs that she wanted preserved. Now
88 years old, she was "not likely to be here many more years," and knew that whoever
cleaned out her room would treat these treasured photos "as trash to be gotten out of
the way." She just loved "everyone of those pictures and did not want to part with
them," but she had "no place to put them but packed away in a box" in her closet.
May 5, 1953 Grandmother Phillips writes that when she lived in Wichita with her
daughter Helen Padfield, most of the pictures were framed and hanging on a wall of
her room. "I would turn over in my grave if those pictures were mistreated."
May 5, 1953 Grandmother Phillips lamented that "Not everyone loves old things as I do,
especially family and family mementoes." She wrote of old books she had given to Frank,
Eleanor's father. I do not know what became of them. But I do have the photographs.
May 5, 1953 Grandmother Phillips loved the old poets as well. Here she mentions a
first edition of "Childe Harold," the poem that made Lord Byron famous.
Call me old-fashioned. I am a lover of old things. This is my copy of Byron's Poems.
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