Roger W. Smith letter to Harold J. Dies, March 24, 2007

 

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Harold J. Dies (1914-2012) was Trustee of the Dreiser Trust.

 

– posted by Roger W. Smith

   June 2017

Sara Dreiser (Aunt Juggie) postcard to her niece Gertrude Nelson, 1907

 

Sara White Dreiser postcard to Gertrude Nelson 8-4-1907

 

See above downloadable PDF file, above.

Sara Dreiser (“Aunt Juggie”) was Theodore Dreiser’s first wife.

Her postcard was addressed to  Gertrude Nelson. Gertrude, who was born in 1894, was the daughter of Dreiser’s sister Emma and Lorenzo A. Hopkins. She took the surname Nelson, the name of her stepfather John Nelson. Later, Gertrude changed her last name to Hopkins.

Gertrude Nelson was living at the time in St. Louis with her aunt Mame, Dreiser’s sister, and Mame’s husband Austin Brennan.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

 

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 Miss Gertrude Nelson
1324 Union Blvd.
St. Louis
Mo.

posted from Avon, N.J.
Sun., August 4, 1907

My dear Gertrude:

You should see your mother and father* sporting at Avon-by-the-Sea. Your Uncle Teddy & I came a week ago & they are spending the day with us. We all go back this p.m. Your mother looks lovely. Love to all of you.

Aunt Juggie

 

*Emma (Dreiser) Nelson (Theodore Dreiser’s  and Emma’s husband John Nelson.