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Quite a lot of this letter is illegible, but I like the details about Will.
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[Not easy to read because it's faded.]
January 14, 1924
My dear Mother + Alma,
We have been home a week + I have not ended writing ever since, but I have been busy and have been going to bed early for we stayed up so late talking +c.
Will flourished while we were away. He did his own cooking + put on weight in quite an alarming way. We left Savannah Sunday night + were here early.
The chickens are laying quite well now + we hope to send you some more eggs.
We had some very cold weather a week ago. On the Sunday it went down to zero + Will said he gave up trying to heat the house and stayed in the kitchen. It was considerably warmer on Monday. It was cold in Savannah too and the hard freeze killed all the beautiful flowers. On the train it was so hot but the children all slept like logs. It has warmed up now but we got much better weather here than in Savannah during the visit.
Will played golf on Friday afternoon for his exercise + took Billy with him and they both enjoyed it very much. Yesterday afternoon we took all the children out for a walk and they enjoyed it. Billy [something about enjoying walking?]
I am sorry you did not decide to come down here for a visit, I thought it would be easy for you to come on from Philadelphia. If you get [illegible, something to do with winter] mind + come. I hope the radio is working well now. Will is working on one now - he is always experimenting with the apparatus. He did not work on it while he was alone. I think it took him all his spare time to plan his meals and cook them. He made some cranberry jelly + some marmelade. The jelly looks very good, the marmelade has to be boiled down as it is too thin + watery.
I am glad you had a good time in Philadelphia.
Ever since I wrote last I have remembered gifts that I did not mention - the cunning little baskets, the [too faint to read] crayons, which are to be put by until he is old enough to be very careful with them. Today I went to the bank + put Margaret's birthday check into her savings a/c. I ought to have done it long ago but had neglected to start a savings a/c here for her. I must get to my other letters tonight, now must stop.
Much love from us all,
Kathleen
My dear Mother + Alma,
We have been home a week + I have not ended writing ever since, but I have been busy and have been going to bed early for we stayed up so late talking +c.
Will flourished while we were away. He did his own cooking + put on weight in quite an alarming way. We left Savannah Sunday night + were here early.
The chickens are laying quite well now + we hope to send you some more eggs.
We had some very cold weather a week ago. On the Sunday it went down to zero + Will said he gave up trying to heat the house and stayed in the kitchen. It was considerably warmer on Monday. It was cold in Savannah too and the hard freeze killed all the beautiful flowers. On the train it was so hot but the children all slept like logs. It has warmed up now but we got much better weather here than in Savannah during the visit.
Will played golf on Friday afternoon for his exercise + took Billy with him and they both enjoyed it very much. Yesterday afternoon we took all the children out for a walk and they enjoyed it. Billy [something about enjoying walking?]
I am sorry you did not decide to come down here for a visit, I thought it would be easy for you to come on from Philadelphia. If you get [illegible, something to do with winter] mind + come. I hope the radio is working well now. Will is working on one now - he is always experimenting with the apparatus. He did not work on it while he was alone. I think it took him all his spare time to plan his meals and cook them. He made some cranberry jelly + some marmelade. The jelly looks very good, the marmelade has to be boiled down as it is too thin + watery.
I am glad you had a good time in Philadelphia.
Ever since I wrote last I have remembered gifts that I did not mention - the cunning little baskets, the [too faint to read] crayons, which are to be put by until he is old enough to be very careful with them. Today I went to the bank + put Margaret's birthday check into her savings a/c. I ought to have done it long ago but had neglected to start a savings a/c here for her. I must get to my other letters tonight, now must stop.
Much love from us all,
Kathleen
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1.
January 14, 1924
The only really legible part of the date is the January. The day could be the 14th, the 17th, or the 18th. I'm choosing the 14th. As for the year, it has to be 1924, because Will was transferred to Atlanta in 1923, and as of the summer they still didn't have a house to live in, and Mama Margaret died in May of 1924, so nobody would be writing to her after that. Therefore the only possible January is in 1924, but for all I know Kathleen forgot about the new year and wrote 1923.
2.
Will flourished while we were away. He did his own cooking + put on weight in quite an alarming way. We left Savannah Sunday night + were here early.
So Kathleen and the kids spent Christmas vacation in Savannah with her father (WJ), mother (Annie), and sister (Ruth). I hope Will was able to get away from work for Christmas Day. We learn later in the latter that Mama Margaret and Alma went to Philadelphia to spend Christmas with Eva, which is why I'm including this in Eva's document lists even though she wasn't specifically mentioned in the letter. Fred was in Angola doing his missionary work but I think his wife Mabel and her mother had already arrived back in the US from Angola by Christmas. And Laura surely stayed home in Ohio.
3.
The chickens are laying quite well now + we hope to send you some more eggs.
I think I read in some other letter that they had a special box for sending eggs to South Hadley.
4.
I hope the radio is working well now. Will is working on one now - he is always experimenting with the apparatus.
This may be the first of many mentions of radios in the letters. I'm not sure. I think the first radio station in the US started up in 1920.
5.
He made some cranberry jelly + some marmelade.
I just love to imagine Will slaving over a hot stove making cranberry jelly. And I wonder if the cranberries were sent down to Atlanta from South Hadley.
6.
Today I went to the bank + put Margaret's birthday check into her savings a/c. I ought to have done it long ago but had neglected to start a savings a/c here for her.
Good heavens, Maggie's eleventh birthday was in early November 1923 - two months before this letter was written.
January 14, 1924
The only really legible part of the date is the January. The day could be the 14th, the 17th, or the 18th. I'm choosing the 14th. As for the year, it has to be 1924, because Will was transferred to Atlanta in 1923, and as of the summer they still didn't have a house to live in, and Mama Margaret died in May of 1924, so nobody would be writing to her after that. Therefore the only possible January is in 1924, but for all I know Kathleen forgot about the new year and wrote 1923.
2.
Will flourished while we were away. He did his own cooking + put on weight in quite an alarming way. We left Savannah Sunday night + were here early.
So Kathleen and the kids spent Christmas vacation in Savannah with her father (WJ), mother (Annie), and sister (Ruth). I hope Will was able to get away from work for Christmas Day. We learn later in the latter that Mama Margaret and Alma went to Philadelphia to spend Christmas with Eva, which is why I'm including this in Eva's document lists even though she wasn't specifically mentioned in the letter. Fred was in Angola doing his missionary work but I think his wife Mabel and her mother had already arrived back in the US from Angola by Christmas. And Laura surely stayed home in Ohio.
3.
The chickens are laying quite well now + we hope to send you some more eggs.
I think I read in some other letter that they had a special box for sending eggs to South Hadley.
4.
I hope the radio is working well now. Will is working on one now - he is always experimenting with the apparatus.
This may be the first of many mentions of radios in the letters. I'm not sure. I think the first radio station in the US started up in 1920.
5.
He made some cranberry jelly + some marmelade.
I just love to imagine Will slaving over a hot stove making cranberry jelly. And I wonder if the cranberries were sent down to Atlanta from South Hadley.
6.
Today I went to the bank + put Margaret's birthday check into her savings a/c. I ought to have done it long ago but had neglected to start a savings a/c here for her.
Good heavens, Maggie's eleventh birthday was in early November 1923 - two months before this letter was written.
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