
Read about the ornate City Point Head House, constructed about 1897, here. Presumably Lizzie was working or visiting there.
Elizabeth A. Linn (1879-1973), "Lizzie", was the daughter of William A. Linn and Luella Hannah (Green) Linn of Hartland, Maine.
Interestingly, the 1880 Census shows a William Linn, wife Emma and daughter Lizzie A. Fuller. Was Emma Ella? Was Lizzie the daughter or adopted daughter of William and Emma/Ella? There was a Fuller connection to the larger Linn family, as a genealogy of the the Linn family of Hartland, Maine, shows.
This genealogy contains a section describing Lizzie's immediate family and a family photograph. Another photograph and short bio of Lizzie appear on the website of the Hartland Historical Society - mentioning that she was active in the suffragist movement in Hartland - you'll have to scroll down a bit more than halfway.
Lizzie would return to Hartland, Maine, by 1900 and spend the rest of her life there.
Perhaps a reader will weigh in with the identity of Mattie.
In the letter, Mattie talks about:
- working for the Brown family and speculates that Mrs. Brown might be pregnant - they might have been Attorney William B. Brown (1866-1938) and Helen M. (Whittredge) Brown (1864-1938), "Nellie", whose first child, a daughter, was born in 1899.
- mentions the "little Smith girl"
- mentions moving into Dr. Bean's house - presumably the house of Dr. Edwin Augustus Bean (1848-1898)
- mentions Mr. Hale from Waterville
- mentions Mr. Wallace Grey - perhaps Wallace L. Grey (1871-1962)
- mentions Mr. Lidstone - perhaps Rev. Isaac Harold Lidstone (1865-1937), if he ever pastored in Hartland
- uses phrases from various languages, including French, Italian, Latin, German
- says she is "way down in the valley of the blues"
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