[So I overheard that] Some of our neighbors will have a baby too …if that’s a fact 69th Ave will be the scene of “doll parades.”
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Monday, February 16, 1931
I wasn’t kidding you, my darling. I already have those parts back which I told you I wanted plated for Nancy’s buggy. They look real nice. The buggy looks very pretty in daylight.
Thursday, February 12, 1931
Everybody thinks she’s a sweet baby but they can’t think she’s as sweet as we do, can they, Dear?
Tuesday, February 3, 1931
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.
Monday, February 2, 1931
…the time from now until then will go so fast — it will be here before you realize it.
Thursday, January 29, 1931
How is my little pal today? Fine I hope. I’m feeling fine too. So if you feel fine & I feel fine then we’re all fine.
Wednesday, January 28, 1931
You ask me how I like cooking – well here’s the low down – I don’t like it much.
Tuesday, January 27, 1931
[Dad’s] chest hurts him terribly so tonight I’m going to see that it’s greased with lard & turpentine — your remedy.
Tuesday, April 23, 1929
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?
Saturday, April 20, 1929
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”?
Friday, April 19, 1929
I’m sending this letter by Special Delivery so you’ll have it as a substitute for my being with you. I’m sending 1000 kisses along as proxies.
Thursday, April 18, 1929
I just “made” that train by one minute. So you see it pays to have a watch upon which you can bet your last dollar… I better not pride myself too much with it or something might go chicken wire with it.
Tuesday, April 16, 1929
I wish I could get near a radio this afternoon so I can pass the time listening to a ball game.
Friday, March 15, 1929
Thursday, March 14, 1929
Tuesday, March 5, 1929
Thursday, February 28, 1929
I shouldn’t really be the one – there are in my estimation a whole carload of nicer fellows right in your own town than I am…
But don’t start looking for them now otherwise I’ll be out of luck.
Wednesday, February 6, 1929
I am so glad to receive the honor of being in the position that you have put me in – you have given me the chance of winning you. Oh, may I win… It would make me the happiest boy in the world if I, in the end, can have you – I mean that I should consider myself really & truly blessed, if I win out in the competition… You know, my dear, all is fair in ‘Love & War.’




















