“This diagram is intended to convey a faint idea of the manner in which Mr. Carleton’s bedroom door was barricaded on the morning of July 31. The Besieging parties being Miss Nellie Rounce and her fellow conspirator Miss Nellie Yale.” July 1876
We don’t do that to our guests these days! Mr. Carleton was Julie’s publisher and frequent summer guest. I suspect that the ‘Miss Nellie Yale’ is Helen Yale Smith, not her namesake Helen Yale. The latter was a close friend, but was not referred to as ‘Nellie’. So, two teenage girls cheerfully making Mr. Carleton welcome! It is the plethora of bottles that I find most interesting in that sketch…
Note that the door trim matches the Little Parlor, nice confirmation that the trim on that room was not modified when the fireplace was redone at the turn of the century. The trim also suggests that Carleton probably had the long vanished bedroom where the main hall now is (as the only other possible bedrooms upstairs have plainer trim). The main hall and the north end would not be built for another 17 years.
Note too our mysterious bird signature once again.
Acair Fearann 