“The Contributors’ Column of the Atlantic Monthly for August includes under the heading of ‘Robins and Real Estate,’ an article by Miss Edith Horton of 210 North Quarry Street. In it she tells of her recent acquisition of an old house on Main Street, Newfield, where she now has her summer home.
Miss Horton relates how, when she was a little girl, the house was owned by a great aunt and uncle who were childless and so lavished their love upon her. ‘But it is not for memories alone that I have bought my house, nor is it because in its Gothic way it is quite lovely.’ The explanation, says Miss Horton, is that, ‘One fragrant summer evening long ago when I sat upon a narrow porch with my Aunt Amanda and listened dreamily to the tender night sounds, I somehow touched the very heart of things—the reality, the world, nature.’
So it is that Miss Horton returns to her summer home with a feeling of understanding, and it is there that she does much of her writing. She has written several stories recently and a few poems. She has a story in the September issues of the Household Magazine which also carries her pictures.
Miss Horton is the daughter of the late Randolph Horton, one-time mayor of Ithaca.”
“Ithaca Writer Finds Retreat in Old House,” Ithaca Journal, August 21, 1935, 2.