Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
Well, now I told you about som of the presents. Mr. Dod& of Dodds
Drugstore, here it is. llMr. R. M. Dodds gave me a rubber pillow, a
for toilet a.rticles, a box of chewing gum, a box of face gowder, two
of rubber gloves, a soldier's mirror, and a rubber face snonge.
lovely letters from Niss Egan of Boston,11 she was my diregtor
Ed Nolton, who was are of beaus frcm Holyoke , Massawetts , and/ others.
'Triday momin@: I had a wonderful ride over rry native city with a pup of
nurses here attending an institute. I was glad indeed to have a last gliwse
of Ljncolnls lbnmnt and the p&s and suburbs. So beau$iful just now,
sprWed everywhere with blooming bridal wreath.ll This yas getting on toward
May, toward the end of May. llEhjoyed seeing the various $chooIhousep whelre
I labored in the cause of the future health of Springfiela six and seven
years ago. I passed the house where I was born, 305 West Washington Street,
and the old high school where I spent four years in purswlt of a foundation.
Even the old gas works, where I used to chew tar when a tw little girl
going to and fYom school, looked good,to me. I passed the hospital where I
had my first tralning for nursing. The haunted house on West Washington
Street, too, aroused my mmry of the days when neither heaven nor earth
could have made me pass by without protection. I went twough part of the
city where I have lived at various tSmes in my career. I@ fact3 a panorama
of presentation of nly life's history this day and was gld for it." May 19,
now. "It was rather:' well, maybe I o@t not to take so much tim
on this;
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Q. No, no. It's interesting.
A. Well, you're sweet.
Q. (chuckles) Where were you on May 19?
A. Well, "I was rather surprised to recefve c orders to proceed
without delay this morning. To proceed to
sco to sa '1 May
26 at. . . II (pause) oh, it was mrn Washington, anyhowb, CO~~~LUTLC i tian
from Washington. Oh, "The corrrnunicat%on earlier in the wpek advised me that
unless my passport arrived. Within the next few days, Tnthe next day or
two it said, it would be impossible for m to sail by the1 end of the month."
Q. You hadn't received your passport yet then?
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A. No, I hadn l t had it, no. But when the; had it, why
telegamto proceed. So well, I had $om time to get re
pack and so forth. l10n Wednew the registration
Association of Graduate Nurses was in Springfield
work in the Senate. And severe1 of the Chicago
Nurses-shall I . . .
Q. NW' this is what you described to m, before when you bde your gpeech?
A. Yes. 'We c m to a second reading and compromised. Well, you don't
want that @, do you? I think 1 ciarified that enom. And thei, oh
here was MLss Walsh and her sister and so forth and so on. Miss McCullough
had m up at Riverton.