Letter, Addie MacLeod to the President, Officers, and members of the Friendship Club, January 3, 1951
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Title
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Letter, Addie MacLeod to the President, Officers, and members of the Friendship Club, January 3, 1951
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Description
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This letter was sent by Addie McLeod of 288 Spring Street Trenton, New Jersey to the President, Officers, and Members of the Friendship Club on January 3rd, 1959.
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The letter sends gratitude to the Friendship Club for a Christmas gift and for their continued communication with and remembrance of her that makes her feel seen. McLeod that “its so nice to be remembered when you are old and worn out.”
Addie McLeod (1892-December 5, 1962) was the widow of William McLeod, had one daughter named Mrs. Artilla J. Esters, and four sisters (Trenton Sunday Times 1962). She seems to have had strong ties to the Princeton area. Her husband had died by the year 1950, as indicated in the Princeton City Directory (R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers 1950). Per this directory, she appeared to be a maid in Princeton (R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers 1950). Her funeral was held at the Mt. Pisgah AME Church in Princeton, and she was buried in the Princeton Cemetery (The Trenton Times 1962).
The “nucleus” of the buzzing Spring Street community where McLeod resided just a few blocks from was located between Willow and Calhoun Streets (Leynes 2015). It included many prominent Black middle class professionals, community leaders, and Black-owned businesses from restaurants to barbers (Leynes 2015).
The Friendship Club is “an African-American women’s club that raised money for scholarships, promoted the arts as well as artists, and provided aid to those in need” (Historical Society of Princeton at Updike Farmstead 2020). The club could have been based at the St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church at 306 Willow Street in Trenton, NJ (Leynes 2015). This church had a local chapter of the New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs with which other Friendship Clubs were affiliated (Leynes 2015; N.J. State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs 1957). Per McLeod’s connections to Princeton, it is also possible that she was a member of a Friendship Club there.
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Map to Addie McLeod’s address
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Rights
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Creator
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McLeod, Addie
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Date
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1951/01/03
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Language
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eng
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[Princeton, NJ]
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Contributor
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Historical Society of Princeton
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Extent
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1 page
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Identifier
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MS-584
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Subject
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Trenton, New Jersey.
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Princeton, New Jersey.
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African American women.
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Thank-you notes
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African Americans--Women--Clubs
