Letter from Will to Kathleen: 10/22/1919
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What is this? A letter from Will, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to his wife Kathleen, who is in Savannah, Georgia with the kids, visiting her family.
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Cincinnati, Ohio,
October 22, 1919.
Dear Jessie,
This is to advise you that the moving has been postponed until the 5th proximo, and that a Mrs. Steel will utilize the time from the 1st to the 4th in cleaning the house. She must know how that particular house should be cleaned as she has done it several times for Boffinger + Hopkins. She does all of their cleaning, I believe. Mr. Gere sent her to me.
I made my party call on the Gere’s last night, so as to ask Miss Attee and Mrs. Green if I could take them to the station to-day. However they have postponed their start until later probably Friday on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Green’s brother-in-law, who lives in Lawrence. I am to take them whenever they do go. Mr. Gere seemed to be in quite a fussing mood, and he didn’t think Mrs. Gere was a martyr because she had three meals a day to cook and one child to take care of! When Miss Attee started to draw the plan of a house she was talking about, he seized the pencil and insisted on drawing it himself from Miss Attee’s description, and one of them told him he was the stubbornest man in the world. He thought Mrs. Gere ought to have 14 husbands and she thought one was trouble enough and Miss Attee thought one was too many. But as Mrs. Gere does not go off and take six weeks’ vacation when he can’t go, perhaps he knows the most about managing wives.
I took a half day off yesterday afternoon and worked on the Buick. I think I got it to running all right again although I got through so late that I didn’t take it out to see how it would go.
Sunday, when Mrs. Ross had quite a family party, I said that I thought Mrs. Morrison had gone to Virginia to her brother’s wedding. Mrs. Ross said she was sure she had not, and then turned and whispered something to her sister-in-law. Well, I was mistaken in what I thought, because the next day Mrs. Ross told me she had just learned that Mrs. Morrison was in the hospital, and that another daughter had arrived Wednesday.
I am inclosing a set of pictures of our two babies. I think you might bring the originals back. Don’t you feel like a slacker, staying away so long, and making me have the house cleaned, and tend to the moving? I weighed this afternoon and am gaining. How are you doing?
You don’t deserve to have me stay after office hours to write you a letter, so I am going.
With love,
Will
P.S. I am tired telling the Geres that I have not heard from you since I saw them last.
W.
October 22, 1919.
Dear Jessie,
This is to advise you that the moving has been postponed until the 5th proximo, and that a Mrs. Steel will utilize the time from the 1st to the 4th in cleaning the house. She must know how that particular house should be cleaned as she has done it several times for Boffinger + Hopkins. She does all of their cleaning, I believe. Mr. Gere sent her to me.
I made my party call on the Gere’s last night, so as to ask Miss Attee and Mrs. Green if I could take them to the station to-day. However they have postponed their start until later probably Friday on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Green’s brother-in-law, who lives in Lawrence. I am to take them whenever they do go. Mr. Gere seemed to be in quite a fussing mood, and he didn’t think Mrs. Gere was a martyr because she had three meals a day to cook and one child to take care of! When Miss Attee started to draw the plan of a house she was talking about, he seized the pencil and insisted on drawing it himself from Miss Attee’s description, and one of them told him he was the stubbornest man in the world. He thought Mrs. Gere ought to have 14 husbands and she thought one was trouble enough and Miss Attee thought one was too many. But as Mrs. Gere does not go off and take six weeks’ vacation when he can’t go, perhaps he knows the most about managing wives.
I took a half day off yesterday afternoon and worked on the Buick. I think I got it to running all right again although I got through so late that I didn’t take it out to see how it would go.
Sunday, when Mrs. Ross had quite a family party, I said that I thought Mrs. Morrison had gone to Virginia to her brother’s wedding. Mrs. Ross said she was sure she had not, and then turned and whispered something to her sister-in-law. Well, I was mistaken in what I thought, because the next day Mrs. Ross told me she had just learned that Mrs. Morrison was in the hospital, and that another daughter had arrived Wednesday.
I am inclosing a set of pictures of our two babies. I think you might bring the originals back. Don’t you feel like a slacker, staying away so long, and making me have the house cleaned, and tend to the moving? I weighed this afternoon and am gaining. How are you doing?
You don’t deserve to have me stay after office hours to write you a letter, so I am going.
With love,
Will
P.S. I am tired telling the Geres that I have not heard from you since I saw them last.
W.
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1.
Dear Jessie,
This is a continuation of a joke in: ...in which Will said:
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.
But I don't know who Jessie was.
2.
Mr. Gere sent her to me.
The Gere's were friends of Will and Kathleen, and I think that Miss Attee, mentioned in the following paragraph, was a sister of Mrs. Gere. They're all in the non-family page on this website for Ohio folks.
3.
I took a half day off yesterday afternoon and worked on the Buick. I think I got it to running all right again although I got through so late that I didn’t take it out to see how it would go.
Will had told Maggie in a letter nine days before this that the Buick wasn't working:
3.
P.S. I am tired telling the Geres that I have not heard from you since I saw them last.
Ooh, nice shot!
Dear Jessie,
This is a continuation of a joke in: ...in which Will said:
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.
But I don't know who Jessie was.
2.
Mr. Gere sent her to me.
The Gere's were friends of Will and Kathleen, and I think that Miss Attee, mentioned in the following paragraph, was a sister of Mrs. Gere. They're all in the non-family page on this website for Ohio folks.
3.
I took a half day off yesterday afternoon and worked on the Buick. I think I got it to running all right again although I got through so late that I didn’t take it out to see how it would go.
Will had told Maggie in a letter nine days before this that the Buick wasn't working:
3.
P.S. I am tired telling the Geres that I have not heard from you since I saw them last.
Ooh, nice shot!
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