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510, E. Bolton St.
Savannah, Georgia
January 14th 1934.
Dear Eva:

It’s nice to have a “4” to write instead of two “3s” is it not?  At any rate it is a change.  The old one does not have a nice look to me anyway.

I have not sent cards for several years, and you have always kept it up, so really some acknowledgment is due you by this time.  I only hope the address will prove correct.

These days it is not out of place to wonder if things have changed with ones friends - in some cases such violent ones have occurred + in others monotony is about the only word for it.  At any rate anything in my environment would seem to have comedown to the plainest + quietest daily existence.  Everything in school life is pared to the bone.  To keep a private school these days is nearly a castle in Spain.  You almost receive the pupils open armed for nothing a year, so glad to have a job + at the end it, with some thin scrapings, retire to rest with the nothing that accrued.

We had a very fine metaphysical lecture from W Tutt [???] this afternoon.  We only have one a year, and so it is very precious.  He held his audience in one thought throughout, + lifted one right out of all the woes of sense.  Last Sunday strangely we heard one by H. Tomlinson from Jaxsonville.  First I’ve got on a Radio.  We went to a friend’s house.

Do you remember Stuart West.  He is just finishing as 1st Readers.  He is such a nice fellow, I’m sorry to have missed so many of his services.  Last year was the first of 17 or 18 years work, to be out of the S. School.

I have nothing but blessed memories of my dear father, he was always my special one, + no one ever had a kinder friend.  It was his way of silently doing kind things that makes his life one with a halo to me.  For 70 years he worked + earned a living, from the time he was left an orphan at 10, the oldest of 4 boys, until his 80th birthday, when it had to be laid down.  He always had information, no matter what the subject + he had acquired it all by his own efforts.  In a quiet unostentatious way his was a wonderful life of attention to duty above any personal consideration.  He never had help from anyone, yet he helped many a one.

I was thinking today of how, when Jesus went, there were only his clothes as a personal possession, + it was identically almost the same with our dear one.  Except for his watch + suits, there was nothing to give, for he never spent anything whatever on himself, but oh how he loved to give, how his face lit up at the thought.  Well now, I did not mean my little note of acknowledgment of your kind ones to touch on this at all.  I just dropped into it.  It is very quiet and lonely here now, but I do not mind aloneness very much.

K. came for 4 days at Cmas.  It was not possible to attempt any trip to A. for mother.  I hope this N. Year will bring you many blessings.

With love,

Ruth



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To keep a private school these days is nearly a castle in Spain.  You almost receive the pupils open armed for nothing a year, so glad to have a job + at the end it, with some thin scrapings, retire to rest with the nothing that accrued.
Eva, like Ruth, was a teacher - Eva of music in Philadelphia, Ruth of art in Savannah.  I don't know where Eva taught, but I wonder if Ruth was hoping to encourage Eva to talk about how Eva's own school was doing.
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