Letters, 1905/1908
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- Box 2, Folder 2
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1891 August 4 Ruth Elizabeth Thompson is born to Elizabeth Hubbard Thompson and Evert M. Thompson, with older brothers Harold and Lyman. By 1905 the family is residing in a house on North Meridian Street in Indianapolis.
1905 April Ruth begins keeping a 'memory book', while attending Tudor Hall School for Girls in Indianapolis. August Ruth goes to camp at Lake Maxinkuckee in Indiana.
1907 June/July Ruth visits relatives in Cincinnati and Paducah. August Ruth spends a month with the family of her schoolmate Winona Montgomery at Lake Wawasee in Indiana.
1908 July/August Ruth spends two weeks with Winona's family at Lake Wawasee.
December 3 Ruth begins music lessons at the Metropolitan School of Music, Indianapolis.
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