Letter from Will to Kathleen: 10/8/1919
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A letter from Will, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to his wife Kathleen, who is, with the children, visiting her family in Savannah, Georgia.
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Will's a Charlie Chaplin fan!
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415 Customhouse,
Cincinnati, Ohio,
October 8, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
This is being written at the office after 4:30, so I feel like a boy being kept in after school. I have seen the first three World’s Series games played here, but don’t expect to go again if they play here. I didn’t go to day as I was quite disgusted with yesterday’s game and besides I had enough to do at the office.
I am starting on a trip to Zanesville and Lowell to-morrow night. I expect to get back Saturday morning.
I am inclosing two bills from the dairy. You will notice that they have a balance of 34¢ carried forward from August. I think that was deducted for two bottles with flies in them. I wish you would write them a letter, if you want to make any deductions and send it to me to send to them with a check for the right amount.
Why don’t you all get weighed? I would have a better idea of how fat you were getting. I weighed and haven’t lost a pound.
I go down town every night now and nearly always go to a picture show. I know when I tell you, that there hasn’t been a single chance to see Charley Chaplin, that your conscience will hurt you for not letting me go when I had the chance.
I bought two new white shirts this afternoon with $6.00 of the money that may be I am going to get from the laundry. I expect to get a couple more with the rest of it after putting a couple of dollars to it.
It is getting to late and dark to write any more tonight. I intended to write to Margaret but it took me too long writing this.
I miss you very much and hope to hear that you are coming back soon. Tell me when in the next letter. It is positively to be not later than the end of the month.
With lots of love and kisses to you and the kids.
Will.
Cincinnati, Ohio,
October 8, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
This is being written at the office after 4:30, so I feel like a boy being kept in after school. I have seen the first three World’s Series games played here, but don’t expect to go again if they play here. I didn’t go to day as I was quite disgusted with yesterday’s game and besides I had enough to do at the office.
I am starting on a trip to Zanesville and Lowell to-morrow night. I expect to get back Saturday morning.
I am inclosing two bills from the dairy. You will notice that they have a balance of 34¢ carried forward from August. I think that was deducted for two bottles with flies in them. I wish you would write them a letter, if you want to make any deductions and send it to me to send to them with a check for the right amount.
Why don’t you all get weighed? I would have a better idea of how fat you were getting. I weighed and haven’t lost a pound.
I go down town every night now and nearly always go to a picture show. I know when I tell you, that there hasn’t been a single chance to see Charley Chaplin, that your conscience will hurt you for not letting me go when I had the chance.
I bought two new white shirts this afternoon with $6.00 of the money that may be I am going to get from the laundry. I expect to get a couple more with the rest of it after putting a couple of dollars to it.
It is getting to late and dark to write any more tonight. I intended to write to Margaret but it took me too long writing this.
I miss you very much and hope to hear that you are coming back soon. Tell me when in the next letter. It is positively to be not later than the end of the month.
With lots of love and kisses to you and the kids.
Will.
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1.
This is a stop in the Tour of letters between Will and his wife Kathleen in September and October of 1919.
The brochure for the Tour is at:
2.
I have seen the first three World’s Series games played here, but don’t expect to go again if they play here. I didn’t go to day as I was quite disgusted with yesterday’s game and besides I had enough to do at the office.
I can see why Will was disgusted. Wikipedia says:
Game 6 Tuesday, October 7, 1919 3:00 pm (ET) at Redland Field in Cincinnati, Ohio
WP: Dickie Kerr (2–0) LP: Jimmy Ring (1–1)
The Series reverted to Cincinnati for Game 6. Dickey Kerr, starting for the White Sox, was less dominant than in Game 3. Aided by three White Sox errors, the Reds jumped out to a 4–0 lead before Chicago fought back, tying the game at 4-4 in the sixth, which remained the score into extra innings. In the top of the tenth, Gandil drove in Weaver to make it 5–4, and Kerr closed it out to record his — and Chicago's — second win.
3.
I am inclosing two bills from the dairy. You will notice that they have a balance of 34¢ carried forward from August. I think that was deducted for two bottles with flies in them. I wish you would write them a letter, if you want to make any deductions and send it to me to send to them with a check for the right amount.
Kathleen looked at the bills, and decided they needed to find a different dairy.
4.
Why don’t you all get weighed? I would have a better idea of how fat you were getting. I weighed and haven’t lost a pound.
This may be in answer to what Kathleen said about Baby Kay in Kathleen is so fat. She is heavy to carry. I want to get her weighed.
If so, it surprises me that a letter got from Savannah to Cincinnati so fast.
5.
I bought two new white shirts this afternoon with $6.00 of the money that may be I am going to get from the laundry.
This would be from the laundry losing some shirt's of Will's - see: I haven’t had a shirt since I was down to the last one. I sent 4 to the Model Laundry two weeks ago today and when my things came back only a week later there were no shirts.
This is a stop in the Tour of letters between Will and his wife Kathleen in September and October of 1919.
- The previous Tour stop is: 1919-10-07 LETTER FROM KATHLEEN TO WILL
- The next Tour stop is: 1919-10-12 LETTER FROM KATHLEEN TO WILL
The brochure for the Tour is at:
2.
I have seen the first three World’s Series games played here, but don’t expect to go again if they play here. I didn’t go to day as I was quite disgusted with yesterday’s game and besides I had enough to do at the office.
I can see why Will was disgusted. Wikipedia says:
Game 6 Tuesday, October 7, 1919 3:00 pm (ET) at Redland Field in Cincinnati, Ohio
WP: Dickie Kerr (2–0) LP: Jimmy Ring (1–1)
The Series reverted to Cincinnati for Game 6. Dickey Kerr, starting for the White Sox, was less dominant than in Game 3. Aided by three White Sox errors, the Reds jumped out to a 4–0 lead before Chicago fought back, tying the game at 4-4 in the sixth, which remained the score into extra innings. In the top of the tenth, Gandil drove in Weaver to make it 5–4, and Kerr closed it out to record his — and Chicago's — second win.
3.
I am inclosing two bills from the dairy. You will notice that they have a balance of 34¢ carried forward from August. I think that was deducted for two bottles with flies in them. I wish you would write them a letter, if you want to make any deductions and send it to me to send to them with a check for the right amount.
Kathleen looked at the bills, and decided they needed to find a different dairy.
4.
Why don’t you all get weighed? I would have a better idea of how fat you were getting. I weighed and haven’t lost a pound.
This may be in answer to what Kathleen said about Baby Kay in Kathleen is so fat. She is heavy to carry. I want to get her weighed.
If so, it surprises me that a letter got from Savannah to Cincinnati so fast.
5.
I bought two new white shirts this afternoon with $6.00 of the money that may be I am going to get from the laundry.
This would be from the laundry losing some shirt's of Will's - see: I haven’t had a shirt since I was down to the last one. I sent 4 to the Model Laundry two weeks ago today and when my things came back only a week later there were no shirts.
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