Margaret told Muriel detailed information about the wedding and she went out to tell the town, at Margaret's disappointment. Muriel wouldn't also welcome any suggestion about choosing the color of her bridesmaid costume.
More on wedding plans: evening or afternoon, decoration of the church, ushers, cost of invitation, bridesmaids. Elliot Coleman, the poet who later would found the Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University, was the organist of the wedding.
Margaret reads a letter from Adelle describing the mess in the home as people were working on preparation for the wedding (painting, etc.). The letter discussed several plans and arrangements for the wedding and the bridesmaids' dresses.
Kenneth had had so much elementary practical chemistry at Cincinnati that he felt like it was kid stuff (he had worked for so long at the Erie Railroad and knew far more chemistry than what he was studying in college). He became careless about this…
Kenneth recalls Dick Wilson's work on the Old Testament, his reputation worldwide in philology, and how he felt he would be ready to die after he had finished an article he was writing: his work would have been done.
Margaret and Kenneth tell about their summer in Bordentown, NJ, staying again at the Hutchisons' home. Kenneth was busy with church ministry, and Margaret was busy keeping the very big house of the Hutchisons. She reads letters giving a detailed…
Kenneth discusses with Margaret about the use of their money and the money they had saved. They had disagreements over this, which Kenneth saw as a classic example of misunderstandings over finances.
Kenneth and Margaret Landon tell of the controversy at Princeton Theological Seminary involving J. Ross Stevenson, Charles Erdman, Robert Dick Wilson and J. Gresham Machen.
Each literary society had a well furnished room for its meetings and there were no other events scheduled on Friday nights. Both Kenneth and Margaret share memories of their activities at the literary societies
Kenneth and Margaret tell about their impressions upon arriving at Stony Lake for their honeymoon. The new couple had taken the boat and slept like logs as it crossed Lake Michigan. They then rode the bus to Stony Lake. Margaret reads from letters to…
Margaret reads her letter from Gull Lake describing their visit to Niagara Falls, touring the Lake by canoe. She further describes their trip to Atlantic City while Kenneth was ill. They then caught a train to Philadelphia and to Trenton and,…
Kenneth remembers the first time he met professor Robert Wilson. He came to Kenneth's room and made a joke with a huge pipe. He had divided his life in sequences of fifteen years: 15 for study, 15 for writing, and 15 for teaching.
Margaret and Kenneth remember the last days before their wedding and talk about the fox fur he had brought her as a wedding present. Margaret reads about their final plans, people to host, her hunt for a wedding and an evening dress, and her…
Kenneth recalls being told by the doctor that he had low blood pressure because of hard work. He laughed at the doctor's comment that Kenneth had the sickness but lacked the symptoms.
Das Machen invited the Checkers Club to his room at 8:30. Some twenty of them packed in the room and enjoyed the food he had put out for them. They played checkers and chess.
Kenneth remembers never accumulating things or celebrating a birthday or Christmas. When he married Margaret she came with much stuff and enjoyed having many celebrations, which was quite a shock to Kenneth. This accumulation of "things" continued…
Kenneth recalls Robert Dick Wilson as a man in his 80's who had laid his life in sequences of 15 years each (teach, research, writing). He was about Kenneth's size and was very active.
Kenneth talks about how excellent Princeton was back then, just one brilliant professor after another. The scholarship was excellent before it all began falling apart.
Kenneth tells how he asked Margaret to marry him back in 1924. Kenneth was working at a restaurant and was saving money to buy an engagement ring for Margaret. He bought an expensive ring, but the problem was that Margaret didn't seem to want to be…
Margaret reads a letter to her mother telling her about Kenneth's parents' visit, the poor health of Kenneth's mother, and her struggle with the weather in Princeton. She writes about Ned Stonehouse, a bright young man at Princeton seminary. When Ned…
Margaret reads the first letter she received from Kenneth, wishing her Merry Christmas. It was a very brief note, written on "the most beautiful letter paper" Margaret ever had in her whole life.
In February 1926 Margaret was very sick and Kenneth had to care for her. He would cook, iron their clothes, and provide her with various kinds of care. It turn out that the sickness was in fact the symptoms of her pregnancy.
Kenneth and Margaret entertained the clique, a group of young people that Kenneth had organized. Kenneth and Margaret tell about the sermon contest at Princeton that all students had to participate in before the faculty. Kenneth didn't know he was in…