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Mission Helpers, Mother Drexel to Mother Joseph, March 23, 1900
Transcription:
"Dear Mother Joseph,
I am so sorry I did not answer your letter sooner with regard to Etta Doris. I really do not know what had better be done. It seems a shame to have her return to such a place as her parents have But I may leave…
"Dear Mother Joseph,
I am so sorry I did not answer your letter sooner with regard to Etta Doris. I really do not know what had better be done. It seems a shame to have her return to such a place as her parents have But I may leave…
Mission Helpers, Mother Drexel To Mother Joseph, April 4, 1898
Transcription:
"Dear Rev. Mother,
You wrote me some time ago that you had room for several children; therefore I hope it will not inconvenience you to recieve (sic), at so short a notice, two girls, tomorrow afternoon. One of them is a child from…
"Dear Rev. Mother,
You wrote me some time ago that you had room for several children; therefore I hope it will not inconvenience you to recieve (sic), at so short a notice, two girls, tomorrow afternoon. One of them is a child from…
Mission Helpers, A Parent to Katharine Drexel, August 11, 1904
Transcription:
“Mother Catherine,
Dear Lady,
I now write to you again making three times to give me my child Daisy Ellis that is Baltimore school I called to see you But was not given that privilege I have only received answer to one tell me…
“Mother Catherine,
Dear Lady,
I now write to you again making three times to give me my child Daisy Ellis that is Baltimore school I called to see you But was not given that privilege I have only received answer to one tell me…
Mission Helpers, Demetrias to Joseph, September 20, 1901
From the top of page 6: "I got very much excited and said past what I thought about the grown deaf mutes, Mo. B did not have time to tell me your plans so when I came home I gave the three of them to Sr. Magdalen for our dormitory work, thus giving…
Mission Helpers, Mother Demetrias to Father O'Connell, November 14, 1904
In this November 14, 1904 letter to Father O’Connell of Pittsburgh, Mother Demetrias responds to his request for details about their Italian work and his inquiry as to whether The Mission Helpers would like to continue that work in Pittsburgh. She…
Mission Helpers, Demetrias to Joseph, July 10, 1905
In this letter to Mother Joseph, Demetrias writes from Aquadilla: “We left San Juan July 4th, we arrived here six hours or so afterwards, it was not though an unpleasant trip, for the scenery was magnificent. The sisters here look well and happy.…
Mission Helpers, Demetrias to Joseph, August 3, 1905
Transcription:
“My dearest Rev. Mother, We have been having great doings in San Juan, there was a riot here Tuesday and the City was in the state of the wildest excitement, the rioters were very near us, and you could hear shots fired and hear…
“My dearest Rev. Mother, We have been having great doings in San Juan, there was a riot here Tuesday and the City was in the state of the wildest excitement, the rioters were very near us, and you could hear shots fired and hear…
Mission Helpers, Demetrias to Joseph, September 20, 1905
This is a letter Mother Demetrias sent to Mother Joseph from Puerto Rico on September 20, 1905. Demetrias begins by asking for new bags and pockets to be sent to the sisters in Puerto Rico, as theirs are in poor condition. She informs Mo. Joseph that…
Mission Helpers, Demetrias to Joseph, October 16, 1905
Beginning on p. 2: “... Our Catechism classes are going down, I went to Anasco last week we had but a few children, the protestants give pictures, and do many little things to please children, do you know that they have 50 little ones in their school…
Mission Helpers, Mo. De Sales to Mo. Demetrias from PR in 1905
Sr. De Sales in 1905 describes Sr. Catherine going to a local prison in Puerto Rico to minister to an inmate there because of her advanced Spanish.