Letter from Will to Kathleen: 6/2/1917
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A letter from Will, in Elkins, West Virginia for work, to his wife Kathleen, at home in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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June 2, 1917
Dear Kathleen,
We are leaving for Martinsburg W. Va. at 2:30 PM. We are due to arrive there at 12:23 a.m. From there we go to Columbus. If you can, please mail the collars to me at the Virginia Hotel, Columbus.
I arrived at Athens about 11:40 P.M. I had a very pleasant chat with a couple of ladies on the train! I was about to leave the car to go to one ahead when the elder one engaged me in conversation. I judged later that she was afraid a man with a bottle of whiskey might cause trouble. They all got off at Chillicothe.
I left Athens at 12:50 PM and arrived here about 11:45 PM.
This is a very new town. It was not incorporated until 1889. We had a rainy trip of it yesterday and it rained some today. The earth wads were pretty bad. One of the cars, a Buick almost like ours, was stuck in the mud. It was down to the axle, and the gasoline tank almost touched the ground.
Must be closing. I don’t know yet when I will get back.
With lots of love,
Will.
Dear Kathleen,
We are leaving for Martinsburg W. Va. at 2:30 PM. We are due to arrive there at 12:23 a.m. From there we go to Columbus. If you can, please mail the collars to me at the Virginia Hotel, Columbus.
I arrived at Athens about 11:40 P.M. I had a very pleasant chat with a couple of ladies on the train! I was about to leave the car to go to one ahead when the elder one engaged me in conversation. I judged later that she was afraid a man with a bottle of whiskey might cause trouble. They all got off at Chillicothe.
I left Athens at 12:50 PM and arrived here about 11:45 PM.
This is a very new town. It was not incorporated until 1889. We had a rainy trip of it yesterday and it rained some today. The earth wads were pretty bad. One of the cars, a Buick almost like ours, was stuck in the mud. It was down to the axle, and the gasoline tank almost touched the ground.
Must be closing. I don’t know yet when I will get back.
With lots of love,
Will.
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1.
Hotel Randolph in Elkins, West Virginia, whose stationery Will was using, apparently is no longer in existence.
2.
Will's train schedule seems to be:
It's a slow trip through West Virginia. My idea of West Virginia is that you can drive straight through it on the interstate without a blip (of course, what I remember about it is beautiful mist-covered mountains and a cool glass-blowing place, but that's irrelevant), but a blipless experience was clearly not how things worked for Will in 1917.
3.
If you can, please mail the collars to me at the Virginia Hotel, Columbus.
Kathleen didn't send the collars. She sent a letter to him at the Virginia Hotel that was returned to sender as unclaimed: Am glad I did not send the collars to Columbus as you were there on Sunday + so probably would not have had them. I sent a letter there.
Hotel Randolph in Elkins, West Virginia, whose stationery Will was using, apparently is no longer in existence.
2.
Will's train schedule seems to be:
- Thursday night, May 31 at 11:30 pm: Arrived at Athens, West Virginia
- Friday afternoon, June 1 at 12:50 pm: Left Athens, West Virginia
- Friday night, June 1 at 11:45 pm: Arrived at Elkins, West Virginia
- Saturday afternoon, June 2 at 2:30 Leave Elkins, West Virginia
- Saturday night/Sunday morning, June 3 at 12:33 am: Arrive at Martinsburg, West Virginia
- Sometime or other go to Columbus, Ohio.
It's a slow trip through West Virginia. My idea of West Virginia is that you can drive straight through it on the interstate without a blip (of course, what I remember about it is beautiful mist-covered mountains and a cool glass-blowing place, but that's irrelevant), but a blipless experience was clearly not how things worked for Will in 1917.
3.
If you can, please mail the collars to me at the Virginia Hotel, Columbus.
Kathleen didn't send the collars. She sent a letter to him at the Virginia Hotel that was returned to sender as unclaimed: Am glad I did not send the collars to Columbus as you were there on Sunday + so probably would not have had them. I sent a letter there.
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