Series VI: Family Correspondence Family correspondence is arranged chronologically. Beginning in 1848, it includes letters to and from the Rev. John Riddle Warner (MM’s maternal grandfather) from the time of his early pastoral work in Pennsylvania. Most of these letters (1848-1859) are written by or to Henry and Mary Warner (his parents), Henry Warner (his brother), and Annie Warner (Mrs. Robert) Armstrong (his sister). Other letters addressed “Dear Brother: ae from his ministerial colleagues. Beginning about 1859 there are added letters to and from Jennie Craig, who became his wife in 1860; her brother, George Craig; and the Eyster family, relative of the Craigs. Many letters are addressed from Laurel Hill, Pennsylvania, home of Jennie Craig and her family near Gettysburg. Jennie and John Warner lived near Gettysburg after their marriage. Mary Craig Warner was born to John and Jennie Warner in 1862. In September 1863, Jennie Warner died as a result of the disease which infested the Gettysburg area after the Civil War battle there. Infant Mary went to live with her Warner grandparents in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh). Letters from her to her “Pa” begin about 1870. About 1865, her father moved to Kirkwood Presbyterian Church. When Mary Warner reached high school age, she joined him, and attended the Mary Institute in St. Louis. She married John Milton Moore in 1884 and moved with him to Newton, Massachusetts, where their son, John Warner Moore, was born in 1886. While there, her husband suffered a nervous breakdown, and Mary Warner Moore returned to her father’s home in Kirkwood. Marianne Moore was born there in 1887. Mary Warner Moore’s letters enter the correspondence from about 1890. Her principal correspondents are “Uncle Mermod,” apparently a family friend from St. Louis, and Mary Craig (Mrs. Ira) Shoemaker, her first cousin. John Riddle Warner died in 1894 and Mary Warner Moore and her two children moved to Allegheny to live with their Warner relatives. The following year they resettled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, not far from several families of Craig relatives who lived in Chambersburg and neighboring communities. In 1904, John Warner Moore left home to attend Yale University. At that time, Mary Warner Moore and Marianne Moore began their lifelong correspondence with him, often sharing the same piece of stationery. Marianne Moore began her years at Bryn Mawr College in 1905, and the three wrote round-robin letters, mailing the letter received on to the next person in line. Included occasionally during this period are letters to and from Mary Jackson Norcross, a very close family friend, daughter of the Moore’s pastor in Carlisle, who had graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1900 and who prepared Marianne Moore for her entrance examinations. In writing to one another, Mary Warner Moore, John Warner Moore, and Marianne Moore used nicknames. From about 1904-1913, the most common are Gater, Fang and Sissy for Marianne Moore; Fawn, Bunny, and Mouse for Mary Warner Moore; and Turtle, Toady, and Biter for John Warner Moore. Two close family friends also have nicknames Beaver for Mary Jackson Norcross and Ben or Benjamin Bunny for Alice Benjamin MacKenzie. After about 1913, when the Moores read Kenneth Grahame’s The wind in the willows, they adopted the names of characters in that book: Marianne Moore became Rat; Mary Warner Mooe, Mole; and John Warner Moore, Badger. These names survived (with others added in) throughout their lives, and became the names used for them by John Warner Moore’s family. Upon graduation from Yale in 1908, John Warner Moore took various teaching jobs at private schools in New Jersey. Marianne, after her graduation in 1909, studied at Carlisle Commercial College for a year, worked briefly in 1910 for Melvil Dewey in Lake Placid, New York, and taught at the United States Indian School in Carlisle (1911-1914), living at home. John Warner Moore attended Princeton Theological Seminary 1911-1913, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. HIs first assignment was in Baltimore in the church of a Dr. Barr. In 1916, he was called to the Ogden Memorial Presbyterian Church in Chatham, New Jersey; in September of that year, all three Moores moved to the manse there. In 1917, John Warner Moore joined the Navy and by 1918 was a member of the chaplain’s corps, in which he remained until he retired after World War II. He married Constance Eustis in the summer of 1918 and was posted to (among other assignments) San Pedro, California (early 1920s), Brooklyn Navy Yard (late 1920s), U.S. Samoa (early 1930s), and Norfolk, Virginia (late 1930s). During World War II he served on the flagship of the Pacific Fleet under Admiral Nimitz. After retirement from the military, he joined the staff of the Gunnery School in Washington, Connecticut. He had four children, born ca. 1919-1928: Mary Marwick Moore, Sarah (Sallie) Eustis Moore, Marianne (Bea) Craig Moore, and John Warner Moore II. They called their aunt Marianne Rat or Craig. They addressed their grandmother, Mary Warner Moore, as Grandmary. When John Warner Moore joined the Navy, Marianne and Mary Warner Moore moved to 14 St. Luke’s Place, New York City, in September 1918. They stayed there until the autumn of 1929 when they moved to 260 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn. Mary Warner Moore died on 9 July 1947 and is buried in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Marianne Moore moved to 35 West 9th Street, New York, in the autumn of 1965 and died there on 5 February 1972. Her ashes are interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. John Warner Moore died in 1977 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Series VI: Family correspondence, by date (rev. 12/90) VI:01:01 Family correspondence, March, 1848. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:02 Family correspondence, January 1850. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:03 Family correspondence, December 1850. 1 folder (1 leaf). 2 VI:01:04 Family correspondence, January 1851. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:05 Family correspondence, July 1851. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:06 Family correspondence, August 1851. 1 folder (3 leaves). VI:01:07 Family correspondence, September 1851. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:08 Family correspondence, October 1851. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:01:09 Family correspondence, November 1851. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:10 Family correspondence, December 1851. 1 folder (3 leaves). VI:01:11 Family correspondence, January 1852. 1 folder (2 leaves). VI:01:12 Family correspondence, February 1852. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:13 Family correspondence, March 1852. 1 folder (2 leaves). VI:01:14 Family correspondence, April 1852. 1 folder (2 leaves). VI:01:15 Family correspondence, September 1852. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:16 Family correspondence, October 1852. 1 folder (4 leaves). VI:01:17 Family correspondence, November 1852. 1 folder (6 leaves). VI:01:18 3 Family correspondence, December 1852. 1 folder (7 leaves). VI:01:19 Family correspondence, January 1853. 1 folder (4 leaves). VI:01:20 Family correspondence, February 1853. 1 folder (5 leaves). VI:01:21 Family correspondence, March 1853. 1 folder (5 leaves). VI:01:22 Family correspondence, April 1853. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:01:23 Family correspondence, May 1853. 1 folder (5 leaves). VI:01:24 Family correspondence, June 1853. 1 folder (3 leaves). VI:01:25 Family correspondence, July 1853. 1 folder (17 leaves). VI:01:26 Family correspondence, August 1853. 1 folder (2 leaves). VI:01:27 Family correspondence, September 1853. 1 folder (10 leaves). VI:01:28 Family correspondence, October 1853. 1 folder (3 leaves). VI:01:29 Family correspondence, November 1853. 1 folder (11 leaves). VI:01:30 Family correspondence, February 1854. 1 folder (46 leaves). VI:01:31 Family correspondence, July 1854. 1 folder (1 leaf). VI:01:32 Family correspondence, October 1854. 1 folder (1 leaf). 4 VI:01:33 Family correspondence, January 1855. 1 folder (7 leaves). VI:01:34 Family correspondence, February 1855. 1 folder (13 leaves). VI:01:35 Family correspondence, March 1855. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:01:36 Family correspondence, April 1855. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:01:37 Family correspondence, May 1855. 1 folder (5 leaves). VI:01:38 Family correspondence, June 1855. 1 folder (14 leaves). VI:01:39 Family correspondence, July 1855. 1 folder (13 leaves). VI:01:40 Family correspondence, August 1855. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:01:41 Family correspondence, September 1855. 1 folder (2 leaves). VI:01:42 Family correspondence, October 1855. 1 folder (6 leaves). VI:01:43 Family correspondence, November 1855. 1 folder (7 leaves). VI:01:44 Family correspondence, December 1855. 1 folder (12 leaves). VI:02:01 Family correspondence, [no month] 1856. 1 folder (2 leaves). VI:02:02 Family correspondence, January 1856. 1 folder (4 leaves). 5 VI:02:03 Family correspondence, February 1856. 1 folder (7 leaves). VI:02:04 Family correspondence, March 1856. 1 folder (9 leaves). VI:02:05 Family correspondence, April 1856. 1 folder (10 leaves). VI:02:06 Family correspondence, May 1856. 1 folder (14 leaves). VI:02:07 Family correspondence, June 1856. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:02:08 Family correspondence, July 1856. 1 folder (10 leaves). VI:02:09 Family correspondence, August 1856. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:02:10 Family correspondence, September 1856. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:02:11 Family correspondence, October 1856. 1 folder (10 leaves). VI:02:12 Family correspondence, November 1856. 1 folder (8 leaves). VI:02:13 Family correspondence, December 1856. 1 folder (7 leaves). VI:02:14 Family correspondence, [no month] 1857. 1 folder (2 leaves). VI:02:15 Family correspondence, January 1857. 1 folder (11 leaves).