Letter from Kathleen to Will: 10/19/1919
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A letter to Will, in Cincinnati, Ohio, from his wife Kathleen, who, with the children, is visiting her family in Savannah, Georgia.
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510, Bolton St. East,
Savannah, Ga.
Sunday
Dearest Will,
Thank you for your letter, also Margaret’s letter and the check. I hope we can find a better train than the one you found, but I have not enquired yet. I think we had better stay here until it is time to get into the new house. I am lonesome for you, and it will not be very long before we get home and then I hope we can get settled down quickly. I hope your loneliness will not induce you to buy an Electric washer + ironer because there are so many other things I want. Perhaps you would like a list.
1. Gas stove
2. Fireless cooker
3. White Kitchen table
4. Dining Room furniture
5. Dining Room rug
6. Set of china for table
7. Bureau for our bedroom
8. New crib or old one done over
9. Vacuum cleaner (maybe)
10. Few new chairs for upstairs
11. Soiled clothes basket
12. Electric iron
13. Bedroom rug
14. Bookcase
By the time we have supplied all these wants I expect we shall decide to do without an electric washer. You see I should have to have a laundress anyway and so it would not save so much. Have you had your shirts back from Laundry or have they refunded the money?
It has turned cooler here last night and it is much pleasanter, Children are all bonny. I went to church this morning and I hope you did the same. Margaret went to Sunday School but Billy did not go. There was no one to bring him home as we all stayed for Church. I have been wondering how we shall manage with him when I get back. I shall be going to Church + shall want you with me so who will bring Billy home from S.School. I do hope I can get a good trustworthy servant. I hope you will not be too lonely until we get back. I really do not know when my visitor came. I never thought of the date. It was about the second week or so that I was here.
Thank you for the A + N Journal.
I am going to bed. It is cooler + I hope to get a good night. Ruth weighed herself + has lost about ten pounds!
Much love to you and please do not carry out your threat of not writing any more letters.
Kathleen
Savannah, Ga.
Sunday
Dearest Will,
Thank you for your letter, also Margaret’s letter and the check. I hope we can find a better train than the one you found, but I have not enquired yet. I think we had better stay here until it is time to get into the new house. I am lonesome for you, and it will not be very long before we get home and then I hope we can get settled down quickly. I hope your loneliness will not induce you to buy an Electric washer + ironer because there are so many other things I want. Perhaps you would like a list.
1. Gas stove
2. Fireless cooker
3. White Kitchen table
4. Dining Room furniture
5. Dining Room rug
6. Set of china for table
7. Bureau for our bedroom
8. New crib or old one done over
9. Vacuum cleaner (maybe)
10. Few new chairs for upstairs
11. Soiled clothes basket
12. Electric iron
13. Bedroom rug
14. Bookcase
By the time we have supplied all these wants I expect we shall decide to do without an electric washer. You see I should have to have a laundress anyway and so it would not save so much. Have you had your shirts back from Laundry or have they refunded the money?
It has turned cooler here last night and it is much pleasanter, Children are all bonny. I went to church this morning and I hope you did the same. Margaret went to Sunday School but Billy did not go. There was no one to bring him home as we all stayed for Church. I have been wondering how we shall manage with him when I get back. I shall be going to Church + shall want you with me so who will bring Billy home from S.School. I do hope I can get a good trustworthy servant. I hope you will not be too lonely until we get back. I really do not know when my visitor came. I never thought of the date. It was about the second week or so that I was here.
Thank you for the A + N Journal.
I am going to bed. It is cooler + I hope to get a good night. Ruth weighed herself + has lost about ten pounds!
Much love to you and please do not carry out your threat of not writing any more letters.
Kathleen
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1.
Thank you for your letter, also Margaret’s letter and the check.
See:
2.
I hope we can find a better train than the one you found, but I have not enquired yet.
Will had suggested an itinerary in his October 15 letter.
3
Have you had your shirts back from Laundry or have they refunded the money?
A reference to the laundry losing Will's shirts - see:
4.
Thank you for the A + N Journal.
The Army and Navy Journal.
5.
Ruth weighed herself + has lost about ten pounds!
Will's response to this was in:
I think Ruthie could afford to lose 10 lbs much better than you could, and I hope you have followed the opposite course.
Thank you for your letter, also Margaret’s letter and the check.
See:
2.
I hope we can find a better train than the one you found, but I have not enquired yet.
Will had suggested an itinerary in his October 15 letter.
3
Have you had your shirts back from Laundry or have they refunded the money?
A reference to the laundry losing Will's shirts - see:
4.
Thank you for the A + N Journal.
The Army and Navy Journal.
5.
Ruth weighed herself + has lost about ten pounds!
Will's response to this was in:
I think Ruthie could afford to lose 10 lbs much better than you could, and I hope you have followed the opposite course.
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