Author: Marion Holt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-04

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780265114964

Excerpt from Bryn Mawr College Yearbook, 1923 Your father, an old friend of mine has sent me your note to him in which you ask him to procure from me an article on Helen Taft, an appreciation in lighter vein. Really this asks more than I am'capable of. I do appreciate Helen in all vein's serious and light, but being her father, family modesty should make me hesitate to comply wit-h your request. I'ihave often been asked to write impossible articles on impossible subjects. I have usually found in such cases that the person who asks and suggests has somethingdefinite in mind and ought to have written it without seeking expression of it through another. More than this, though Helen is now in London with her husband and her baby engaged in research on which to base theses for Ph. D. Degrees for all three, she will return next Fall and I would not dare expose myself to her criticism of anything which I, in my innocency of the higher standard. Of criticism of the educated female mind, might say in praise of her.' I might dwell on features of her character and incidents of her career which she would wish to minimize or ignore, or I might fail to laud traits and talents that I have not discovered, but which she with her' better opportunity for observations and after conference with her husband properly appraises. Surelv vou would not wish to introduce into out now happy family relations auv such possibility of disturbance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.