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1 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Program Foreign Service Spouse Series THE CORRESPONDENCE OF BERNETTE CHASE KEMP and ANNA DURKEE KEMP 1915 - 1925 TABLE OF CONTENTS Early Years of the E C Kemp Family Carl and Bernette$s marriage 1904-1918 Janet Kemp Doell$s mother, Anna Smith Kemp, and her friendship ,ith Bernette Chase in -elrose, -ass Bernette married Carl Kemp ,ho entered the .S Consular Service They corresponded ,ith Anna from postings abroad prior to 001 After Bernette$s death, Carl married Anna, his affection evident in his letters Comments by Janet, daughter of Carl and Anna, interspersed ,ith letters Anna$s privileged childhood after her mother$s death Anna declined college but traveled to Europe 1n 1904 Anna met Nettie$s suitor, Carl Kemp, ,ho became an FSO Correspondence from Nettie and Carl in Tunis reveal Carl$s affection for Anna Daughter -ar3orie born They entice Anna to come and visit them 2ettie$s life filled ,ith her child, garden, pets, servants, the American colon y, tea parties and hot ,eather American colony ma4ing surgical supplies for the American Red Cross Daughter, age 1 l62, spea4s in English, French, Arabic Anna had a nervous brea4do,n in 1987 1 Carl supposes ,ar ,ill be declared on :ermany, and feels it unpatriotic to go home ,hile ,ar is on Anna$s letters from Ne, England mean much to Carl and Bernette Carl$s Silver star decoration must be turned in to State Department Carl$s notes of affection to Anna are more frequent Carl cannot recommend foreign travel either for comfort or safety Anna elects not to visit them abroad She responds ,ith difficulty in ,riting to Carl 2ettie gro,ing tired of 4eeping house, servants problems and homesic4ness Life in foreign lands ,ould be unbearable ,ithout children 2ettie, Carl and -ar3orie leave Tunis for the States 0ea4 and pregnant, Nettie victim of flu epidemic of 1918 She died a fe, days after landing in Ne, Yor4 -ar3orie left ,ith relatives in Florida Carl ,ent alone to Bucharest; sent for Anna to join him in fall of l919 Carl and Anna$s marriage 1918-1925 Young consular officers unable to return to .S for years have difficulty finding Carl sends travel instructions to Anna for trip to Europe During 8-,ee4 voyage and storm, many crises among passengers Carl meets Anna at -arseilles They are married in Paris Nov 1919 After diplomatic lunch, Anna ,aits to practice before smo4ing cigarette Feeling starved for outside ne,s, request ne,spapers from home Attend the :rand Ball in Bucharest; "once is enough for Rumanian night life " 2 0ish for a ,ay to have Carl$s daughter come and join them Layette for Anna$s expected baby came from Boston Red Cross Anna feels those having children in far off land deserve most anything To rent house they ,anted, they had to buy all furnishings Four servants cost them only A16 a month Disastrous year of illness for Anna$s sisters at home 0earing her corset ,hile pregnant very uncomfortable 0ants a co, more than anything to have good mil4 for baby Excitement among servants ,ith shooting, chasing ,ith 4nives, fires, etc Carl transferred to Budapest Trip together to Cienna Bac4 at home, 1920 Carl$s daughter meets ne, mother; ad3ustments for both Caried en3oyable activities include opera, entertaining, trip to mountains Buying furniture ta4es all their savings and then some 0ants to educate children at home Anna taught by Calvert system A Eulogy by C Ernest Kemp 1978 Anna$s family center of her existence, and providing a home Terrible conditions in Rumania difficult for Anna 1n Budapest she regained strength and en3oyed its cultural advantages Son remembers living in places ,here friends succumbed to fatal diseases Family al,ays close-4nit -other$s role to run the family and provide support to father$s position, ,hich she filled ,ith understanding and dedication Family separated during children$s college years, but remained close 8 -other stayed in Bremen ,ith husband during ,ar, others evacuated -ove to -elrose, -ass , after 1947 retirement; Anna again became "part of her original family" Carl died in 1971 Loo4ing bac4, Anna felt she had had a ,onderful life CORRESPONDENCE Letters edited by Janet Kemp Doell THE EARLY YEARS OF THE E C KE-P FA-1LY Part 1 1ntroduction The story of my mother, Anna Smith and of her friendship with Bernette Zoe Chase, later Bernette Kemp, and of her own eventual marria e to Carl Kemp and their early years to ether in a Europe rava ed by the first World War is too interestin and indeed dramatic a history to be for otten in a generation or two. For some time I have considered writin it down for my children and nieces and nephews. Upon Anna Kemp(s death I found a treasure trove of letters in her trun), written durin the war years and up to 1923. Suddenly the old stories I had heard a ain and a ain too) on a new dimension, and I became determined to put this story on paper, usin e.cerpts from the letters to ma)e the people come alive once more. Now in my new life, travelin by sailboat for wee)s at a time with my husband Richard, I have the time to underta)e such a pro1ect. Let me start with some bac) round narrative. Anna Smith, from all she told us, had a privile ed and happy childhood. This in spite of the fact that her mother died three wee)s after she was born. She was the youn est of si. children one of whom, Mar aret, had died as a youn child. Her early years were spent with her sister Mary, or May as she was called, nine years her senior4 her brothers Ernest, Carl and Burnell 5Uncle Bun6, her father and her grandfather Dur)ee. Most of the time there was also a house)eeper and a maid. Her maiden aunt, Abi ail Imo ene Dur)ee 5Aunt Jean6, tau ht school nearby and she was the one that made sure everyone was bein raised properly and )new their P(s and 8(s. A St. Bernard, Ti e, also played a part in her life until he died in her 13th year. The house was lar e and comfortable, supported by her father(s wholesale butter and e business, the A.M. Smith Company of Boston. The grounds of the Melrose home were spacious, and their life was what mi ht be called genteel. On Saturday ni hts the clean 4 white tablecloth was put on the table and she always remembered with pleasure the loo) of everythin clean and fresh, and the good dishes, The tablecloth, incidentally, was turned over on Wednesdays. I have never understood how a lar e family could use one white tablecloth for a whole wee). I thin) Aunt Jean(s teachin must have paid off. The friends Anna made in her first years at school remained so throu hout their lives, even thou h they were separated for thirty years while she traveled with her husband. Upon graduatin from hi h school she declined the opportunity to go to colle e as her sister had done. She did however go on a lon trip to Europe with May and her friend Jennie Prescott. Hearin it from the other two it was a hilarious and inspirin trip, but as far as Anna was concerned, pla ued with homesic)ness and other illness as well, it was a pretty grim e.perience which she did not want to repeat. But I am gettin ahead of my story. Durin her hi h school years a gentleman moved in down the street who became friendly with :randpa Dur)ee. For part of every year his niece, Bernette Chase, came from Florida to visit him. I don(t recall if she came for the summers or for lon er periods of time, or if perhaps they both came for parts of the year only, but, however, that was how the two households became acquainted. Anna and Nettie, as she was called, became fast friends. Nettie was about five years older than Anna and the latter was fifteen when she first met Carl Kemp, then Nettie(s suitor. The year was 1904. Carl Kemp was a youn man who had a hard time findin the ri ht slot in life. He had tried various careers, includin four years at sea, and eventually too) up osteopathy, raduatin in one of the early classes at Kir)sville, Missouri. He married Nettie in 1909, and they had an infant dau hter, Dorothy, in 1911. 3e found he could not support his family with his mea er practice. Althou h he never finished hi h school, he was self- educated, and it was about this time that a friend of his who had retired from the Forei n Service su ested he try the e.ams for entry into that profession. He read e.tensively in preparation and passed the e.ams. I believe he said there were only about si.teen or ei hteen other applicants whereas today the e.ams are ta)en by thousands. 3is first post was St. Pierre and Miquelon, tiny French islands off the coast of Newfoundland. In the meantime little Dorothy had died in a crib accident, her head havin been cau ht when the side came down accidentally, Nettie had a hard time recoverin from this tra edy and suffered from depression for some time, However, 1914 found Carl and Nettie, penniless but hopeful, headin for his first post as vice consul.
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