title:
Letter: Harold H. Johnston to Father (John Henry Johnston) (March 19, 1900)
creator:
Johnston, Harold H., 1877-1954
subject:
Berea College
subject:
Berea College -- Students
subject:
Berea College -- Commencement
subject:
Johnston, Harold H., 1877-1954
description:
This letter from Harold J. Johnston to his father describes Harold's desire to borrow some money so that he can invest it in some things to sale on Commencement Day.
description:
Transcript: Berea Ky, Mar. 9, 1900 Dear Father, The pins are fine and the boys are more than pleased, but I can't collect the money for them now as the fellows like myself have been to considerable expenses in buying spring clothes. You may be sure that they will pay me however before another month. Could you conveniently advance me fifty or more dollars. Commencement day2 is a day to make money down here and I thought if I had a little to invest in photographs, eatables etc. I could make quite a little pile. My money is out as my spring clothes cost me about twenty dollars. The way things are going I think I will be able to go to college next year without troubling you for a cent. Now if it isn't convenient to let me have so much don't cramp yourself. I have written Kit all the news. Lovingly (signed) Harold. _________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Harold is here referring to a set of pins he had his father order. The pins were most likely composed of an overlapped A and Z, one being white enamel or old gold and the other being crimson. They were for members of Alpha Zeta, a literary society by Harold's description; no modern equivalent of this society seems to exist. 2. Commencement day was Wednesday, June 6th in 1900. 3. Kittie Johnston, Harold's sister.
description:
Original Size: 8.5 x 11 in.
publisher:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, Ky
date:
1900-03-09
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type:
image/jp2
format:
jp2
identifier:
BC-0800-00041
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identifier:
source:
Berea College Records: RG 08/8.14: Harold H. Johnston Papers. Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, Ky
language:
en
relation:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, Ky
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