Handwritten letter from Gertrude Starkey Pitcairn at “Home” to Dr. G. R. Starkey. Seal of a woman’s profile pressed into upper left corner. Gertrude updates G. R. Starkey on life at home- sickness, new babies, Christmas preparations etc. She reports that she has been staying well by going to bed early and “taking the oxygen often.” Starkey has stated that he can provide Gertude with little except for an education, but Gertrude feels he could not have done more for her wellbeing than provide the foundation for a natural and spiritual education. She is grateful for the advantages provided to her for “mental and spiritual culture.” She writes, “I do not know of a girl who owes so much to her father as I to you. . . I am satisfied from what I know of my natural tendencies that it would have very much retarded any spiritual growth in my nature if I had always been surrounded by wealth, so your hard struggles have been a blessing to me.” Names mentioned: Carrie, Dr. Rane, Hannah Schoff, Dr. Farrington, Stokes, Miss Kate, Paul