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Theodora Dunham, 1897 (print made in 1989 from original plate glass negative; photograph probably by Mary Dows Dunham)
"This morning I saw our Theo bathed & weighed and then wired you her gain was so fine. I musn't stop nursing her while she thrives so on her mama--and I begin to feel stronger and less good-for-nothing."
(Mary Dows Dunham to Edward Kellogg Dunham, Sr., circa 1895)
"Housekeeper's Journal--
...Two innocent inhabitants of the poultry coop after residing there for about a week were submitted to Biddy's destructive mercies. All mention of eggs is carefully avoided by the Colony. It being a subject particularly exciting to the feelings of the Master as well as of all engaged in the mysteries of cooking."
Our Home, a family newspaper written by sisters Harriet Kellogg (Dunham) and Amelia Kellogg containing news of the family farm, 1848
“Our home! What images are brought before us by this one word! The meeting of cordial smiles, and the gathering round the evening hearth, and the interchange of thoughts in kindly words, and the glance of eyes to which our hearts lie open as the day--there is the true city of refuge!”
Passage from the commonplace book of Gertrude Ann Parker (sister of Maria Smyth Parker Dunham), 28 November 1847
"My Darling & precious Polly -- Here is a little blossom from your Boy E
-- a sweet P_ we know what the letter "P" stands for-- I give you a good night Your own Boy E"
Letter from Edward Kellogg Dunham, Sr., to Mary ("Polly") Dows, circa 1893
Edward and Mary Dows Dunham, circa 1910 (print made in 1993 from original negative)
"There is much suffering at the South in various ways, both by whites and blacks.... [T]he South must suffer long from the want of capital. Her own is mostly gone to support the rebellion, and the conduct of her citizens since the war ceased had been such that both Northern men and capital fear for their safety too much to venture there...."
Edward Wood Dunham in Irvington, New York, describing the situation in the South during the Reconstruction period to his son, Carroll Dunham who was in Europe, 10 February 1867
The American Fund for French Wounded (AFFW) was established in 1915 for the purpose of collecting and distributing supplies and funds to emergency hospitals in France, where materials were rapidly being depleted by the war. Theodora Dunham (Bodman) served as an AFFW volunteer, from 1916 to 1917, driving a delivery truck with emergency supplies for the hospitals and refugee camps.
"This week has been a hectic one. I must tell you first about the refugees, for that has been my principle [sic]work and I have just finished three solid hours of going over records, to find that in the last five days we have cared for 269 people and given out 1,362 pieces of clothing.... The people come in at all times during the day and night. They come in baggage cars, crowded in compartments, herded like cattle, with no wills of their own.... There was a little girl of 11 with thin and worn parents, whose right arm was paralyzed, and they said her head was queer from the terrible shock of seeing a companion shot down by the Germans. Poor little thing--we gave her a doll and she was so happy over it."
Theodora Dunham (Bodman) to her mother, Mary Dows Dunham, 16 April 1917
