Letter from Will to Maggie: 10/13/1919
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A letter from Will, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to his older daughter Maggie, who, with her stepmother Kathleen and her siblings, is visiting Kathleen's family in Savannah, Georgia.
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415 Customhouse,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
October 13, 1919.
Dear Margaret,
This will have to be a short letter as it is 5:18, which is nearly time for me to go home for supper. I am inclosing the plans of our new house. I sketched them in a hurry the other morning before going to the office. You may let Mother see them if you feel like it, and are on good terms with her. Under the same conditions you may give her the inclosed draft for $75. If you don’t, I don’t know how you will get back to Cincinnati.
I told Nancy about your first letter and that you said, that you had broken the big doll, but neither one of us knew who the big doll was that you had broken. Anyway it is better break a doll than to have a doll break you.
I saw the little Glencoe baby and her mother a short time ago. The mother asked to be remembered to Mother. The baby was walking very nicely.
I sent Aunt Ruthie’s drawings by express Thursday. I suppose she has them by this time.
I am expecting you to do well enough to get in 2A grade before coming up here, and I know you can do it if you try. You might have that as a surprise!
Several of the people at the church have asked what had become of you and Billy. I went to church yesterday with the Ottermanns, but on the street car as the Buick wouldn’t start.
With love and kisses,
Daddy
P.S. Also to Mother, Billy, Kathleen, Aunt Ruthie, Grandma, and Grandfather or such of them as you are on good terms with.
Daddy
Cincinnati, Ohio.
October 13, 1919.
Dear Margaret,
This will have to be a short letter as it is 5:18, which is nearly time for me to go home for supper. I am inclosing the plans of our new house. I sketched them in a hurry the other morning before going to the office. You may let Mother see them if you feel like it, and are on good terms with her. Under the same conditions you may give her the inclosed draft for $75. If you don’t, I don’t know how you will get back to Cincinnati.
I told Nancy about your first letter and that you said, that you had broken the big doll, but neither one of us knew who the big doll was that you had broken. Anyway it is better break a doll than to have a doll break you.
I saw the little Glencoe baby and her mother a short time ago. The mother asked to be remembered to Mother. The baby was walking very nicely.
I sent Aunt Ruthie’s drawings by express Thursday. I suppose she has them by this time.
I am expecting you to do well enough to get in 2A grade before coming up here, and I know you can do it if you try. You might have that as a surprise!
Several of the people at the church have asked what had become of you and Billy. I went to church yesterday with the Ottermanns, but on the street car as the Buick wouldn’t start.
With love and kisses,
Daddy
P.S. Also to Mother, Billy, Kathleen, Aunt Ruthie, Grandma, and Grandfather or such of them as you are on good terms with.
Daddy
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1.
Will wrote this letter far more neatly than he wrote to Kathleen, so that Margaret, aged not quite 7, would be able to read it.
How often do you read a letter and get such a vivid idea of the personality of the recipient?
2.
I am inclosing the plans of our new house. I sketched them in a hurry the other morning before going to the office.
We don't have the plans that Will sketched. He mentioned them in a later letter to Kathleen:
3.
You may let Mother see them if you feel like it, and are on good terms with her. Under the same conditions you may give her the inclosed draft for $75.
As it turned out, Will forgot to enclose the draft - see: I am inclosing the draft that I forgot to put in Margaret’s letter.
Kathleen did finally get it - see:
4.
I told Nancy about your first letter and that you said, that you had broken the big doll, but neither one of us knew who the big doll was that you had broken.
Nancy must be Maggie's friend Nancy Gere, whom I have listed in the non-family page for Ohio folks on this website. Imagine Will delivering the message to little Nancy.
5.
I sent Aunt Ruthie’s drawings by express Thursday. I suppose she has them by this time.
Yes, she has them. See:
6.
I went to church yesterday with the Ottermanns, but on the street car as the Buick wouldn’t start.
More trouble with the Buick. It always makes me laugh. Will didn't get around to fixing it until over a week later - see:
Will wrote this letter far more neatly than he wrote to Kathleen, so that Margaret, aged not quite 7, would be able to read it.
How often do you read a letter and get such a vivid idea of the personality of the recipient?
2.
I am inclosing the plans of our new house. I sketched them in a hurry the other morning before going to the office.
We don't have the plans that Will sketched. He mentioned them in a later letter to Kathleen:
3.
You may let Mother see them if you feel like it, and are on good terms with her. Under the same conditions you may give her the inclosed draft for $75.
As it turned out, Will forgot to enclose the draft - see: I am inclosing the draft that I forgot to put in Margaret’s letter.
Kathleen did finally get it - see:
4.
I told Nancy about your first letter and that you said, that you had broken the big doll, but neither one of us knew who the big doll was that you had broken.
Nancy must be Maggie's friend Nancy Gere, whom I have listed in the non-family page for Ohio folks on this website. Imagine Will delivering the message to little Nancy.
5.
I sent Aunt Ruthie’s drawings by express Thursday. I suppose she has them by this time.
Yes, she has them. See:
6.
I went to church yesterday with the Ottermanns, but on the street car as the Buick wouldn’t start.
More trouble with the Buick. It always makes me laugh. Will didn't get around to fixing it until over a week later - see:
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DOCUMENT LISTS FOR PEOPLE:
- WILL: DOCUMENTS ----- Outgoing
- KATHLEEN: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- THE NEXT GENERATION: DOCUMENTS ----- Maggie, Billy, Kay
- FARMERS & GRAYS: DOCUMENTS ----- WJ, Annie, Ruth
- NON-FAMILY: OHIO FOLKS ----- Nancy Gere
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