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.
…you’ll soon be compelled to wear “specs” from reading my “rakewalk” rooster style of penmanship. I admit my darling, I once upon the time was a pretty fair penman. But that is “vorbei ist der May.”
…I am so tired I fell asleep a couple times today but I couldn’t help myself. But what do we care about that? We had a most wonderful time out of it so we must overlook such a trivial matter as being tired.”