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This letter is in answer to a letter of the same date from Sibyl. See notes below.
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Mar 15 27
Dear Miss Hosking,
I was on my way kesinga last evening when I saw the sedan parked at Bells. There are several things to tell you but the conversation was general and you were parked at a distance from the vacant chairs.
Mrs. Mac had me shingle her hair - she suggested that the strength was going into her hair. With Samson it was the other way. Delilah may have supplied the dairy products as it is recorded that Samson furnished the honey. Delilah could not her honey on her voyage.
I will be glad to see the portrait of the anatomical freak, tho the fact that she is blonde does not move me.
My kid sister sometimes intimated that I was not a gentleman tho she did not know at that time of this other qualification which makes me a hopeless boor.
I went hunting several times but the game is scarcer than when you were there. Bill has been getting creolin baths.
The swimming was more on the order of seabathing between Cuma + Sachikela followed by a fresh weather dip.
So short
FES
Dear Miss Hosking,
I was on my way kesinga last evening when I saw the sedan parked at Bells. There are several things to tell you but the conversation was general and you were parked at a distance from the vacant chairs.
Mrs. Mac had me shingle her hair - she suggested that the strength was going into her hair. With Samson it was the other way. Delilah may have supplied the dairy products as it is recorded that Samson furnished the honey. Delilah could not her honey on her voyage.
I will be glad to see the portrait of the anatomical freak, tho the fact that she is blonde does not move me.
My kid sister sometimes intimated that I was not a gentleman tho she did not know at that time of this other qualification which makes me a hopeless boor.
I went hunting several times but the game is scarcer than when you were there. Bill has been getting creolin baths.
The swimming was more on the order of seabathing between Cuma + Sachikela followed by a fresh weather dip.
So short
FES
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Mar 15 27
Fred's handwriting is dreadful, but the month must be March.
2.
I was on my way kesinga last evening when I saw the sedan parked at Bells.
As usual, I'm wishing I had a good definition of "kesinga". When Fred uses it, it always seems like some sort of public gathering, and I note that Fred said "on my way kesinga" rather than "on my way to kesinga".
At the moment I know nothing about anybody named Bell.
3.
There are several things to tell you but the conversation was general and you were parked at a distance from the vacant chairs.
What? Fred and Sibyl were in the same place? I don't understand. But I think that yes, they were both in Dondi, which is why Fred was able to anwer Sibyl's letter so fast.
4.
Mrs. Mac had me shingle her hair
Mrs. Mac seems to be Mrs. Allester. I don't know for sure. Anyway, it seems to me that women were comfortable with Fred.
5.
I will be glad to see the portrait of the anatomical freak, tho the fact that she is blonde does not move me.
This must be in answer to something Sibyl said in her March 15 letter:
1927-03-15 LETTER FROM SIBYL TO FRED
I have a picture to show you of someone you were very anxious to see. A blond with eye-lashes that rest on the bloom of her cheek.
6.
My kid sister sometimes intimated that I was not a gentleman
Fred had two younger sisters, Laura and Eva. The kid sister that he's talking about has to be Eva, partly because Eva was the youngest, partly because I can't imagine anybody referring to Laura as a kid sister, and partly because I'm not surprised to hear that Eva used to complain that Fred wasn't a gentleman.
7.
I went hunting several times but the game is scarcer than when you were there.
This seems to be in response to something in Sibyl's March 15 letter:
I was disappointed that I didn't have more opportunity to hear all about Esther and your visit down there. Did you go hunting or swimming, etc etc?
8.
Bill has been getting creolin baths.
Bill must be a cat. As for creolin baths, Wikipedia says:
Creolin is a generic name for disinfectants whose composition varies according to origin. One of its uses is as a disinfectant. It is extracted from the dry distillation of wood. The residue remaining in the autoclave vessel is a dark, syrupy mass called creosote, which is composed mainly of phenolic acid and cresylic acid. The original composition of creolin was this creosote tar oil, caustic soda, soaps, and very little water. It is of low technology and a very powerful disinfectant.
I hope that the contributor frowned disapprovingly as he or she write, "It is of low technology".
Mar 15 27
Fred's handwriting is dreadful, but the month must be March.
2.
I was on my way kesinga last evening when I saw the sedan parked at Bells.
As usual, I'm wishing I had a good definition of "kesinga". When Fred uses it, it always seems like some sort of public gathering, and I note that Fred said "on my way kesinga" rather than "on my way to kesinga".
At the moment I know nothing about anybody named Bell.
3.
There are several things to tell you but the conversation was general and you were parked at a distance from the vacant chairs.
What? Fred and Sibyl were in the same place? I don't understand. But I think that yes, they were both in Dondi, which is why Fred was able to anwer Sibyl's letter so fast.
4.
Mrs. Mac had me shingle her hair
Mrs. Mac seems to be Mrs. Allester. I don't know for sure. Anyway, it seems to me that women were comfortable with Fred.
5.
I will be glad to see the portrait of the anatomical freak, tho the fact that she is blonde does not move me.
This must be in answer to something Sibyl said in her March 15 letter:
1927-03-15 LETTER FROM SIBYL TO FRED
I have a picture to show you of someone you were very anxious to see. A blond with eye-lashes that rest on the bloom of her cheek.
6.
My kid sister sometimes intimated that I was not a gentleman
Fred had two younger sisters, Laura and Eva. The kid sister that he's talking about has to be Eva, partly because Eva was the youngest, partly because I can't imagine anybody referring to Laura as a kid sister, and partly because I'm not surprised to hear that Eva used to complain that Fred wasn't a gentleman.
7.
I went hunting several times but the game is scarcer than when you were there.
This seems to be in response to something in Sibyl's March 15 letter:
I was disappointed that I didn't have more opportunity to hear all about Esther and your visit down there. Did you go hunting or swimming, etc etc?
8.
Bill has been getting creolin baths.
Bill must be a cat. As for creolin baths, Wikipedia says:
Creolin is a generic name for disinfectants whose composition varies according to origin. One of its uses is as a disinfectant. It is extracted from the dry distillation of wood. The residue remaining in the autoclave vessel is a dark, syrupy mass called creosote, which is composed mainly of phenolic acid and cresylic acid. The original composition of creolin was this creosote tar oil, caustic soda, soaps, and very little water. It is of low technology and a very powerful disinfectant.
I hope that the contributor frowned disapprovingly as he or she write, "It is of low technology".
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