Whenever I obtain an old publication of the Watch Tower Society I always check through its pages, in case a previous owner has tucked in a Motto card or newspaper cutting or photograph as a bookmark. I have had some excellent finds this way.
A set of pocket
edition Studies that ended up in Australasia a few years back had two
photographs tucked inside them. Alas, the original owner did not think of
posterity by writing a name for the person on the back of the photographs, but just
some personal comments that would only mean something to immediate family and
friends.
We know that the person in the two pictures above
was the grandmother of a previous owner of the books (name unknown) and here is
the relevance to this blog - she worked with Charles Taze Russell in Bible
House.
The black and white photograph has printed on the
back,”Taken at Myrtle’s last summer” and the faded color one has “Week of
November 30, 1957.”
Does anyone recognize who this might be?
When this material was first published elsewhere, one suggestion was
that it might have been a Margaret or Martha Wilson, married to George M
Wilson.There were no Wilsons on surving lists of Bible House workers, but they
were part of the Allegheny class.
Perhaps the biggest lesson from this is always write names in pencil on the back of photographs. You never know who may want that information further down the line.
I have her set in my library. It is interesting that in Volume 1 there is a marker glued to p 36- a poem Sunshine Over All by Whittier. Same with Volume 3 between pages 224-225 where it talks about not being discouraged because the general call finished in 1881 and ..."the morning cometh, and so does the night." ect. But in Volume 5 between pages 124-125 is a purple book mark, 77x50mm . On one side is the Scripture 1 Corinthians 1:9 and on the other side what the scripture says. Those pages talk about the woman recorded in Mark 5:25-34. Other than those bits and pieces and the photographs there is no notations or writing at all. I like to think those pages had some meaning for her in her older age. Interesting what is found that had meaning to someone and is lost over time.
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