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Caption: Booklet - Katharine Sharp Appreciation (1914)
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honor or recognition which fell to the lot of her friends in the library world, she was quick to recognize and applaud. Though no longer with us, she was always of us. For thirty-three years, through an entire generation, the writer of this sketch has been honored in being admitted to the friendship of Katharine Sharp. Unlike some of her friends, I think I never blindly worshipped at her shrine, refusing to see or admit her faults — for she had faults — but I admired her ability, I honored her courage, I trusted her sense of justice and always I was grateful for the privilege of working at her side. It is worth while to know a woman of whom it can be said, "What was to be borne, she bore, what was to be done she did, but she never made any fuss about either her doing or her suffering." Mrs. Browning must have had in mind someone like Katharine Sharp when she wrote "What are w e set on earth for? Say, to toil— Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines, For all the heat o' the day. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil. T o wrestle, not to reign; and He assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow workers of the soil T o wear for amulets." Springfield, Illinois October 22, 1914 Frances Simpson
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