Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . MOTHERS INTEREST IN THE COLORED RACE came to church after her return from abroad, how charming shelooked in a short blue moire dress and large leghorn hat with whiteplumes. Your mother tells me now that she remembers on this occa-sion saying to herself, What will the Stokes children think whenthey see me in these fine clothes?^ She was then nine, and I seven-teen. After moving to Madison Avenue we attended the Madison SquarePresbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. William Adams was the ministe
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . MOTHERS INTEREST IN THE COLORED RACE came to church after her return from abroad, how charming shelooked in a short blue moire dress and large leghorn hat with whiteplumes. Your mother tells me now that she remembers on this occa-sion saying to herself, What will the Stokes children think whenthey see me in these fine clothes?^ She was then nine, and I seven-teen. After moving to Madison Avenue we attended the Madison SquarePresbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. William Adams was the minister.(He was succeeded by Rev. Dr. Parkhurst.) Occasionally myparents went to Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, and Roman Catholicchurches.^ While strict in their own lives, they were tolerant of dif-ference of religious opinions in others, and at the same time anxiousto shield their children from worldly, irreligious, agnostic, and infidelinfluences. My mother kept Saturday evening according to the old Connecticutcustom, and she observed Sunday evening also, as part of the NewYork Sabbath. Father followed her ex
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