I understood...

...that they had been destroyed some time ago, burned, in fact. I wonder if the Sturgis family has any? I think Elinor may know what happened to them. I also understood from my mother that Mabel's "studio" over there on the rocks was built as a private spot for the two of them, or at least used as such. and I say, I'm happy for Aunt Pedge that she had a love of her life (if she did)

Aunt Pedge's Letters

Hello! So I have a question of family history: has anyone read the letters between Aunt Pedge and Mabel Sturgis?

I was just wandering around the internet kind of at random and found a list of the contents of the Curtis papers left to Radcliffe at http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=sch00133. What I found especially interesting were the following comments:

"MC never married, but worked in Europe and traveled frequently with her lifelong companion, Mabel Sturgis."

And in the content list:

"Margaret, 1883-1965 (#397-525). Personal correspondence with family, colleagues, and friends. (Some correspondence with Mabel Russell Sturgis (#420, 429-432) is closed until 2001."

Hmmm... So, what do you figure prevailed: cultural homophobia or congenital packratism? Or am I making wild assumptions? Just looking for more reasons to be proud of my progressive family history : )