The Evergreen Society Meets Again...Star gazing!

1881-1881 Session

Blount, Sallie Lee

Fauntleroy, Mattie Kate

Fleet, Lucy

Henley, M. Lou

Sale, Nannie F.

Starke, Loulie

Sept. 22, 1880

I had to make the humiliating confession that my record of the last meeting was unfinished & as a punishment for such unpardonable negligence we voted that I should write again.
We were very glad to welcome to our Society Miss Lulie Starke, who played for us the Spanish Dance.    Lou [Henley] read with much feeling "The Death of the Flowers."  It meninded me of the sad & sudden deaths of our freinds Howsie Toombs & Nellie Rice, cut down like the flowers by the early frosts.  I trust we may find them again, in that beautiful Land where the flowers never fade, & partings cannot come.
Lucy played Recreation No. 24 & Mattie read "Try Try Again." [photo]. Nannie read Tennyson's beautiful lines beginning "Break, Break, Break".
Mattie Kate played for the enjoyment of us all Gimbel's Var. on "Old Black Joe." [lyrics].
Sallie read a piece called "The Mountains of the Moon" which was followed by an animated discussion of what is really there & by the expressed hope that we may have an opportunity to see it for ourwselves "one of these days."
Sister [Lou-she is writing the minutes or is she referring to one of her sisters Florence or Bessie?] then played "Music of the Sea" & then we adjourned to hunt Stars in the Mount woods.
We were very successful in fidning them & had such a funny happy time, that we will not soon forget it.

Not signed, but would have been M.L. Fleet again "Lou"