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2228 Nelson Ave.
Mt. Auburn
Cincinnati, O.,
Sept 21, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
Both of our prospects went fluey, if that is the way you spell it. Mrs. ___ didn’t call me up Tuesday as she said she would, but Wednesday the agent did and tried to rent it to me for $75 per. I felt like telling him where to go but didn’t. By that time the Herkness house had been leased at $100, so you know how I felt about trying to do business with a woman who didn’t know her own mind a la Mrs. Rushmore.
As you may have figured out from the address above, I am at the Ross’, having their “blue room” and getting breakfasts and suppers there, also Sunday dinners. I can take just what meals I want. The blue room is the front room with a bay window on the second floor. It is very comfortable. If she had room, and she may have, you might do worse than board and room here. I certainly think that if you can find a good place to room and board it is much better than trying to keep house as things are now.
I didn’t get the pen off yet, but sent the books last night. I saw a McGuffy’s Fifth Reader but it had very few of the old strings in it, in fact it was absolutely ruined.
I have just finished my laundry and my dry cleaning work. I did the cuffs of a shirt as I had come to my last one except the pleated one, and my coat needed some retouching.
There was quite a severe windstorm here Friday noon, not like the one at Corpus Christi or the one at Springfield, but it tore the big front awning down in our old house. I was quite pleased that it happened after we left instead of before. It was ripped from one side to the other at the top, so that it fell right down on the steps, leaving a little strip attached to the porch. Also Dr. Morrison went away leaving all his windows open so that rain could beat in. Aren’t you glad you haven’t a husband like that? He might be worse because he is commencing to paint the upstairs floors.
I have gone to several picture shows, one every night except last night, when I went to a fairly good vaudeville show at the Empress.
I certainly miss you and the family, so you musn’t overstay your leave - one month.
With lots of love and kisses,
Will
P.S. Please give my love to the rest and kisses to the kids.
Mt. Auburn
Cincinnati, O.,
Sept 21, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
Both of our prospects went fluey, if that is the way you spell it. Mrs. ___ didn’t call me up Tuesday as she said she would, but Wednesday the agent did and tried to rent it to me for $75 per. I felt like telling him where to go but didn’t. By that time the Herkness house had been leased at $100, so you know how I felt about trying to do business with a woman who didn’t know her own mind a la Mrs. Rushmore.
As you may have figured out from the address above, I am at the Ross’, having their “blue room” and getting breakfasts and suppers there, also Sunday dinners. I can take just what meals I want. The blue room is the front room with a bay window on the second floor. It is very comfortable. If she had room, and she may have, you might do worse than board and room here. I certainly think that if you can find a good place to room and board it is much better than trying to keep house as things are now.
I didn’t get the pen off yet, but sent the books last night. I saw a McGuffy’s Fifth Reader but it had very few of the old strings in it, in fact it was absolutely ruined.
I have just finished my laundry and my dry cleaning work. I did the cuffs of a shirt as I had come to my last one except the pleated one, and my coat needed some retouching.
There was quite a severe windstorm here Friday noon, not like the one at Corpus Christi or the one at Springfield, but it tore the big front awning down in our old house. I was quite pleased that it happened after we left instead of before. It was ripped from one side to the other at the top, so that it fell right down on the steps, leaving a little strip attached to the porch. Also Dr. Morrison went away leaving all his windows open so that rain could beat in. Aren’t you glad you haven’t a husband like that? He might be worse because he is commencing to paint the upstairs floors.
I have gone to several picture shows, one every night except last night, when I went to a fairly good vaudeville show at the Empress.
I certainly miss you and the family, so you musn’t overstay your leave - one month.
With lots of love and kisses,
Will
P.S. Please give my love to the rest and kisses to the kids.
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This is the first of a series of letters between Will and Kathleen when Kathleen and the three kids (Maggie, Billy, and Kay) were visiting Kathleen's grandparents in Savannah. I've put the transcripts together on the following page:
WILL AND KATHLEEN: LETTERS IN 1919
Will and Kathleen had been living in San Antonio, and Will had just been transferred back to Cincinnati, where they had lived before. I think Kathleen was possibly feeling not up to the stress of taking care of three young children while not having found a place to live, so Will agreed to take care of finding a house while Kathleen went to her parents. Kathleen was usually very capable, but there's also a suggestion in the letters that Kathleen just wasn't feeling well in general. Nothing definite was said, but it wouldn't be surprising that nothing definite was said.
I didn’t get the pen off yet, but sent the books last night.
The beginning of the pen saga. As becomes clear in subsequent letters, this is a pen for 9-month-old Kay.
Kathleen reported from Savannah a few days later that the books had arrived:
1919-09-26 LETTER FROM KATHLEEN TO WILL
The books arrived + Margaret has read a good deal of the Reader.
I have gone to several picture shows, one every night except last night, when I went to a fairly good vaudeville show at the Empress.
I found a picture of the Empress online, with the following:
Empress Theatre
814 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Built in 1846 as a Presbyterian Church, it later became the Vine Street Congregational Church. The New Empress Theatre was opened December 27, 1909 presenting vaudeville, burlesque and by 1912 film were also part of the program. By 1917 films were the major part of the program. It seated 300 and closed in 1929. On March 12, 1937 it was renamed Gayety Theatre featuring burlesque and movies. The site is now an office building.
WILL AND KATHLEEN: LETTERS IN 1919
Will and Kathleen had been living in San Antonio, and Will had just been transferred back to Cincinnati, where they had lived before. I think Kathleen was possibly feeling not up to the stress of taking care of three young children while not having found a place to live, so Will agreed to take care of finding a house while Kathleen went to her parents. Kathleen was usually very capable, but there's also a suggestion in the letters that Kathleen just wasn't feeling well in general. Nothing definite was said, but it wouldn't be surprising that nothing definite was said.
I didn’t get the pen off yet, but sent the books last night.
The beginning of the pen saga. As becomes clear in subsequent letters, this is a pen for 9-month-old Kay.
Kathleen reported from Savannah a few days later that the books had arrived:
1919-09-26 LETTER FROM KATHLEEN TO WILL
The books arrived + Margaret has read a good deal of the Reader.
I have gone to several picture shows, one every night except last night, when I went to a fairly good vaudeville show at the Empress.
I found a picture of the Empress online, with the following:
Empress Theatre
814 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Built in 1846 as a Presbyterian Church, it later became the Vine Street Congregational Church. The New Empress Theatre was opened December 27, 1909 presenting vaudeville, burlesque and by 1912 film were also part of the program. By 1917 films were the major part of the program. It seated 300 and closed in 1929. On March 12, 1937 it was renamed Gayety Theatre featuring burlesque and movies. The site is now an office building.
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