This autobiography
written by Rose Rice, is typed. Did she do the actual typing or was this
copied from a handwritten manuscript, this I do not know. We do know that Francis,
her husband, was a minister and a man of many words, both spoken and written.
In addition to his sermons, he wrote numerous articles and stories which he often
submitted to newspapers for publication. I have not researched this further to know if
some were actually published. The point here is that in his later years he used
almost entirely the typewriter in his work. This would mean that a typewriter
was in frequent use at the house and thus available and not foreign to
Rose. The two typewritten pages in my
possession are originals, that is, not photo copies. I have not been able to
find any handwritten manuscripts of this same autobiography. Therefore, by
conjecture we can probably assume that Rose herself typed this autobiography as
you see it on this blog. The two pages
were found among the possessions of her son, Leslie, upon his death in 1965. If in fact Rose did type her autobiography,
one cannot help but to be impressed by her writing abilities. There are very
few errors of any kind and no corrections were made on the typed document.
Francis was obviously
an enthusiastic writer and collector of written documents. He encouraged both
his mother and his wife to write their own life histories of which both did. He
himself wrote at least two different
autobiographies which will in time and sunder all appear on this blog.
Rose wrote her autobiography
nearly a year to the date after Francis’ death on March 27 of 1936 and five
years before her own death on March 6, 1942.
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