- Collection:
- Cutler Collection
- Title:
- Letter, New York, New York, to Bessie Beamer, 1921 November 13
- Creator:
- Keith, Dora Wheeler, 1856-1940
- Date of Original:
- 1921-11-13
- Subject:
- Keith, Dora Wheeler, 1856-1940--Correspondence
Beamer, Bessie Baker, 1864-1955--Correspondence
Cutler, Hazel Beamer, 1901-1980
Dance--New York (State)--New York
Dancers--New York (State)--New York
Mothers and daughters--Georgia--Thomasville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Thomas County, Thomasville, 30.83658, -83.97878
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Letter written by illustrator, portrait artist, and muralist Dora Wheeler Keith (1856-1940), dated November 13, 1921, to Eva Elizabeth "Bessie" Baker Beamer (1864-1955). In the letter, Keith lets Mrs. Beamer know how proud she is of her daughter Hazel Beamer (before she took the married surname of Cutler, and who lived from 1901-1980), noting that her hard work in dance will create a foundation for future success. Keith assures Mrs. Beamer that if she is patient, she will see that Hazel Beamer will succeed. Keith closes by expressing that her letters to her daughter are a comfort, and demonstrate proof of her love for her daughter. Dora Wheeler Keith and her husband, New York lawyer and reformer Boudinot Keith (1859-1925) were Hazel Beamer's hosts and guardians in New York City, where Hazel Beamer attended college and performed as a dancer before she married.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-03-06-03
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-03-06-03
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/tchs_cutcol_tchs6129-03-06-03/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Thomasville History Center
- Rights:
-
33 West 67th Street [*13 nov. 1921*] New York, N.Y. Dear Mrs. Beamer Ive got it in my heart tonight to write you abt your little girl. I think you ought to know from my side how she is getting on. + how proud + happy we are in it all. She is very well. + quite fat for her + as dear + sweet as she can be. She is working hard at her three classes + now at the [Ex??s] toe [da?ing] besides french which she is getting on with very well. She is now laying a foundation for her future success. + she herself sees what the [???l?r] of hard quiet work is doing for her. She is making friends among the best class of professionals as well as with influential people not professional. I even [?] [?] earning money now yet she is making strides that will insure her [??t??ing] much higher up in her career than she could possibly do otherwise you may be sure that Mr Keith + I guard her at every point + see that she gets at only the best kind of people. Also, Mrs Beamer I watch that she wears her rubbers when its wet that she gets the right kind of food + plenty of it at the right time + sleep enough she never would never have gotten so used as she was last summer, if I could have had the care of her during the winter before. I believe you will find, if you have the patience to wait for its fulfillment, that the child will make very good + that you will feel well repaid for your wonderful forbearance + self-sacrifice all of you. You cant realize what comfort + warmth your letters to her are. Every day one of you give her proof your love + thought