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 don’t want to be bold my darling but I feel terribly downcast to be here all alone day in & day out. Won’t you please try & come home to me soon? The meals I’m getting are getting worse everyday I don’t feel like eating anymore. All I ate today all day was bread & coffee. Soon I’ll not even eat that much anymore. It’s no fun like this, my darling. You’ll agree with me, I’m sure.
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.
All day today I’ve been thinking of you and pining for you and only a line from you would have eased the weight upon my heart… I’ve thought so much about you today that I did so many things today that prompted my getting sore at myself – I made more darn mistakes than I had rubber on a pencil to erase them with.
