Letter from Will to Kathleen: 10/20/1919
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A letter from Will, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Kathleen, who with the children is visiting her family in Savannah, Georgia.
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Cincinnati, Ohio.
October 20, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
Mrs. Durrell called up this morning to find out whether or not you wanted to get her wooden curtain poles and her brass curtain rods. I am supposed to have asked you about it, but am not sure that I did. There are three long poles and two short ones. There is a long one across each of the three wide doors downstairs, and I think the two short ones are on the doors leading from the hall to the dining room and from the hall to the telephone room, which connects with the wash room. There is a brass curtain rod for each window. I think the number is on the plan of the house that I sent to Margaret. She wants $20 for the lot. How reasonable!!
Mrs. Durrell said she was sure to be out by the first of November. I asked if she would be out a day or two earlier so that the house could be cleaned and she did not know. I have arranged to have the moving done on the first, which is Saturday. Yes, I agree with your second idea, that is that you come home and board and tend to having the house fixed up. I am taking on 3 tons of coal that are in the house, at $7 per ton. I b’t an enameled kitchen table for $10 this morning from the unclaimed freight sales room, and also a gallon of Waxit auto polish.
You are reminded to get your letter from the church and also to join the Mother Church if it is not too late and if they will let you do it.
Somebody asked to be remembered to you, but I have forgotten who it was. It might have been Mrs. Herkness, or Mrs. Beach or the Geres. So you can consider that I have done it in each case. I had dinner at the Beach’s Friday and at the Gere’s Saturday.
I hope you will let me know soon about Mrs. D’s poles and rods.
It will be five weeks in the morning since you left. I told you you could be gone only a month. You are getting to be a regular Jessie.
With love,
Will
October 20, 1919.
Dear Kathleen,
Mrs. Durrell called up this morning to find out whether or not you wanted to get her wooden curtain poles and her brass curtain rods. I am supposed to have asked you about it, but am not sure that I did. There are three long poles and two short ones. There is a long one across each of the three wide doors downstairs, and I think the two short ones are on the doors leading from the hall to the dining room and from the hall to the telephone room, which connects with the wash room. There is a brass curtain rod for each window. I think the number is on the plan of the house that I sent to Margaret. She wants $20 for the lot. How reasonable!!
Mrs. Durrell said she was sure to be out by the first of November. I asked if she would be out a day or two earlier so that the house could be cleaned and she did not know. I have arranged to have the moving done on the first, which is Saturday. Yes, I agree with your second idea, that is that you come home and board and tend to having the house fixed up. I am taking on 3 tons of coal that are in the house, at $7 per ton. I b’t an enameled kitchen table for $10 this morning from the unclaimed freight sales room, and also a gallon of Waxit auto polish.
You are reminded to get your letter from the church and also to join the Mother Church if it is not too late and if they will let you do it.
Somebody asked to be remembered to you, but I have forgotten who it was. It might have been Mrs. Herkness, or Mrs. Beach or the Geres. So you can consider that I have done it in each case. I had dinner at the Beach’s Friday and at the Gere’s Saturday.
I hope you will let me know soon about Mrs. D’s poles and rods.
It will be five weeks in the morning since you left. I told you you could be gone only a month. You are getting to be a regular Jessie.
With love,
Will
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1.
I think the number is on the plan of the house that I sent to Margaret.
Alas, we don't have the plan of the house, but we do have the letter to Maggie:
2.
I b’t an enameled kitchen table for $10 this morning from the unclaimed freight sales room, and also a gallon of Waxit auto polish.
Googling got me a company called Waxit in Australia, but nothing in the US.
3.
You are reminded to get your letter from the church and also to join the Mother Church if it is not too late and if they will let you do it.
I have found, among the scans that Barbara sent me, a certificate of membership in the Mother Church for Kathleen's father, which I have added to this website: Also I think there are certificates for Kathleen's mother and for her sister Ruth that I haven't yet added, but I didn't come across one for Kathleen. I originally figured that It simply got stored separately from the other certificates, but maybe Kathleen just never got one.
As for a letter from the church, I can imagine it being some sort of reference from the Savannah church for the Cincinnati church, but I don't see why it would be needed, since Kathleen had already spent time with the Cincinnati church.
4.
Somebody asked to be remembered to you, but I have forgotten who it was. It might have been Mrs. Herkness, or Mrs. Beach or the Geres.
The Geres are in the non-family page on for Ohio folks on this website.
5.
It will be five weeks in the morning since you left. I told you you could be gone only a month. You are getting to be a regular Jessie.
I don't know who Jessie was. it could conceivably be the wife of Kathleen's brother Cecil. That Jessie was a Christian Science practitioner and apparently traveled a lot in that role, but I don't think Kathleen would like that sort of joke about her sister-in-law. It seems more likely to me that Will was talking about a character in a Saturday Evening Post story.
The joke was continued in: ...with still no explanation.
I think the number is on the plan of the house that I sent to Margaret.
Alas, we don't have the plan of the house, but we do have the letter to Maggie:
2.
I b’t an enameled kitchen table for $10 this morning from the unclaimed freight sales room, and also a gallon of Waxit auto polish.
Googling got me a company called Waxit in Australia, but nothing in the US.
3.
You are reminded to get your letter from the church and also to join the Mother Church if it is not too late and if they will let you do it.
I have found, among the scans that Barbara sent me, a certificate of membership in the Mother Church for Kathleen's father, which I have added to this website: Also I think there are certificates for Kathleen's mother and for her sister Ruth that I haven't yet added, but I didn't come across one for Kathleen. I originally figured that It simply got stored separately from the other certificates, but maybe Kathleen just never got one.
As for a letter from the church, I can imagine it being some sort of reference from the Savannah church for the Cincinnati church, but I don't see why it would be needed, since Kathleen had already spent time with the Cincinnati church.
4.
Somebody asked to be remembered to you, but I have forgotten who it was. It might have been Mrs. Herkness, or Mrs. Beach or the Geres.
The Geres are in the non-family page on for Ohio folks on this website.
5.
It will be five weeks in the morning since you left. I told you you could be gone only a month. You are getting to be a regular Jessie.
I don't know who Jessie was. it could conceivably be the wife of Kathleen's brother Cecil. That Jessie was a Christian Science practitioner and apparently traveled a lot in that role, but I don't think Kathleen would like that sort of joke about her sister-in-law. It seems more likely to me that Will was talking about a character in a Saturday Evening Post story.
The joke was continued in: ...with still no explanation.
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