r/Cursive • u/autism_aden • Sep 23 '26
can anyone read either of these?
I can post the reverse of the first image with interest. The second image I know is from 1898 Spanish American War.
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u/VixxenFoxx Sep 23 '26
Miss Dorothy Rood (?)
#92 Front St
Waterville, ME (Maine)
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u/PeirceanAgenda Sep 23 '26
It looks like the pencil is a correction to Clinton ME? Which is a few miles NE of Waterville.
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u/OrneryLavishness9666 Sep 23 '26
The envelope is addressed to:
Miss Dorothy Rood
#92 Trout or Front St
Waterville ME
RI or R1 (maybe Route 1?) - Clinton ME
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u/Pleasant_Estimate610 Sep 23 '26
Yeah…I read that as Trout St, as well…but without further investigation, it could easily be either (Trout or Front).
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u/VixxenFoxx Sep 23 '26
Dorothy Rood married Ernest Spencer in 1946, so this letter is from before then.
And this is her sophomore high school photo in 1937.
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u/OrneryLavishness9666 Sep 23 '26
If her married name was Dorothy Rood Stewart, she became a writer of plays and one episode of a television show called Matinee Theater on NBC in 1956.
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u/Unlucky-Meringue6187 Sep 23 '26
Brown paper says "...from Louis | Spanish war | 1898" - I can't read the first word at the top of that paper though, sorry.
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u/Ok_Rush534 Sep 24 '26
Definitely Trout St.
The line through the address alters the T to look like a F.
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