January 8th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Still warm and damp.  To lunch with Edith at Charles’, for a walk and home.  Could not give M. injection after cooking syringe, etc… because bent needle trying to get it in rubber top of bottle of serum and scared to put it in him.  […]

January 7th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Read Bartlett’s book on baby care cover to cover then to dinner at the Hoffman’s with Ned, Pat and Dick Fabian who is working in aviation now.  Champagne.  Mrs. H. gave us a white and pink “snuggle bunny”, very sweet.  Pat told about dumb young […]

January 5th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Grace (Maggie’s domestic help) was sick so very domestic day.  At a little after three I met Bobbie Sutton in Macy’s baby Department where there was a sale going on. She helped me buy necessities—diapers, shirts, sheets, pads of one sort and another, stockings; then […]

January 4th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: just picture her with a round beach ball for a belly! The doctor was having a busy morning.  Miss Glenn says baby won’t come until Feb. 7,  but he seems to think may arrive before. After doctor to Peck & Peck’s to buy six pairs […]

Here I post a daily diary entry from my grandmother, who lived on Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, in 1937, and a blog entry from yours truly, who lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, 2010. The most appetizing picture of haggis I could find (you’ll understand later…) January 3, 1937,Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie writes: Up late and […]