Letters from Wallie illustrates a beautiful courtship, romance and marriage with wife Mabel via mail by rail from Wausau to Milwaukee in 1930s Wisconsin before and during the Great Depression.
I’m a fine one I tell you in a letter that I was returning the snapshot picture then I forget all about it. If I happen to think about or rather if my memory will stretch so far till I finish this letter then I’ll enclose them. Don’t, please, my little sweetheart be angry at me for what I did to one of them, will you?
Let’s see now just what were those other two pictures about? I remember now, one must have been fit for a “garter” ad of someone who is the “star”?
You see, my darling I must look nice & neat when I’m with you. Because you look so neat & faultless always and my darling I feel so proud about your appearance always. You are a queen.
…I glanced down on my vest and what do you suppose I discovered? I bet your thinking of a “gravy spot.” No my darling, if you thought that you are far off the track – I found one of your hair – that right away brought me memories of our wonderful thrilling “hour & ½ wake.”
With a Carload of Love... 