The letters on this website paint a very clear picture of Marion's motivation and her character.

She wasn't a big letter writer, like Edith. Her letters weren't full of chit chat and gossip, they were all business.

Like her brother Herb, out West, she didn't write all that often, but her parents weren't as upset at her as they were at Herb. 1) They got news about her from sister Edith. 2) Marion was there when they needed her, ALWAYS.

If you want to read chatty fun letters from the pen of Marion Nicholson, read her letters from McGill Normal School in 1905.
She was famous among her friends for laughing all the time, which got her in trouble with the stern teachers. Click here for those letters.

Marion's UNION REPORT Circa 1943 re: tenure, retirement gratuity, etc. CLICK.

Hugh Blair's Desperate Letter to Marion 1918. Marion married in 1913 and therefore gave up teaching.. She seems to have put all her considerable  energy into managing her home. In 1917 she goes home to Richmond to tend her ailing mother. Edith and Flora are left to take care of the toddler and baby and Hugh. I'm sure the babies got well taken care of  by their aunts, but HUGH certainly felt left out. After a two page preamble, preparing her for these 'harsh words'  "There is no food in the house," he complains. "They left the door wide open the other day. I came home to find the ice had melted out of the icebox. Please come home and love me. Read the entire letter: CLICK