June 29 Friday – NYC: Early in the morning Sam went with H.H. Rogers on his yacht Kanawha and sailed to Fairhaven; He slept on board [June 28 to Jean; 1 and 2 July to Clara].
In Dublin, N.H. Isabel Lyon’s journal:
[written diagonally] I am giving birth to something. The parturition pains are great & the birth is a slow one—weeks & weeks. I know not what shall be born but it will be greater—greater than I, & the shell of me is not worthy to be the mother.
The worst of the pains are misunderstood things, I know. But out of the misunderstood comes the understood, if we are not too dulled by agony to be able to see [MTP TS 92].
In Dublin, N.H. Isabel Lyon’s journal:
[written diagonally] I am giving birth to something. The parturition pains are great & the birth is a slow one—weeks & weeks. I know not what shall be born but it will be greater—greater than I, & the shell of me is not worthy to be the mother.
The worst of the pains are misunderstood things, I know. But out of the misunderstood comes the understood, if we are not too dulled by agony to be able to see [MTP TS 92].
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