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.
Please believe me dear I miss you more than I would miss my right arm. Won’t you please hurry and come back to me? I wish everything would be over with so we could be side by each again. Then our little nest would be complete again.
…the time from now until then will go so fast — it will be here before you realize it.
I hope nobody gets the wrong impression because we both love each other more than ever, don’t we Sweetheart?
Let the money matters take care of themselves… it’s better to pay what they ask & not work too hard than working your head off & paying for the “privilege” besides…
We have to order another ton of coal today. Are you still burning wood? This coal we have certainly heats good — better than coke.
With a Carload of Love... 