[From
Mary Emily Turner
Latimer’s Autograph book:
Given
to her Great-Great-Great-Grandson,
James Shoemaker by
Helen Scholl,
March 29, 2003, Indianapolis]
Most
pleasures of the mind result from its powers of association. The most trifling circumstance will often
prove the first link in a chain of interesting ideas. –
‘Tis
the power of association which gives such an interest to albums. The eye in turning over its pages, catches
the hand writing of many an absent friend, and companion; and recollection
loves to linger on the scenes that are gone forever: “They are the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful
to the soul”. In looking over an album
a thousand interesting associations crowd upon the mind, and for a moment, we
are transported back to the scenes which exist only in recollection.—
How
then can we refuse to contribute to an amusement so innocent, and yet so
gratifying.--
Waterbury,
February 9th, 1828
[The
above is the first entry in the autograph book, written about a month after
MET’s 21st birthday, some 26 years before anyone quoted in the book
was ever photographed. See her mother,
Mary Baker Turner’s photograph taken before her death in 1855]
Mary Emily Turner Latimer John Mulford Latimer
Mary Baker Turner James Turner
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