August 15, 1933 - Tuesday

Posmarked Aug 15, 1933 – Portland OR

To GLH at Hotel Stevens, Chicago (Please hold until called for)

From AEP, Knott St, Portland

Monday, Aug 15

Dearest George,

Were you hot today? I tho’t of you all afternoon while we were downtown. We were just melting so you, poor dear, must have been only a grease spot. It seems the one day you pick to go across eastern Oregon might have been cloudy. I hope you took your colored glasses with you because I would hate to have you have a terrible headache on top of being hot. There is nothing worse. Well, dear, I will order better weather for you in the future.

To me the most exasperating and most trying thing I could do is to go shopping with my mother! She met me at 10:30 today and we didn’t get home until five o’clock. It was so hot downtown and Mom so undecided, unsatisfied, and changeable! If anybody should contradict me right about now I think I would just chew them right in two. But I was really very patient tho’ and only spoke sharply to Mom once and that was when we were on our way home.  I was just about dead and we had to stop at the Post Office. We were just going in with Post Office written all over the door and Mom tried to tell me that it wasn’t the Post Office and to make it worse we were jay walking! What a life.

But darling, nobody saw me drop a single tear last night. Your father was kind of worried I think. As we walked back to the house he said “That’s all right, Ann, he’ll be back.” The men sat on the porch and the ladies, including June, sat in the living room and I sat on the door step with Jeff and recovered my composure. Darling, I love you and I miss you more than I can tell you.

I guess it is about decided now that Mom will leave this week about Thursday and June and I will come down later sometime before the first. Maybe we will go down on the boat if we can find one that is convenient in time and place. O, I don’t want to leave. There is such an empty feeling my heart.

Today when we got downtown we did a lot of shopping that we hadn’t planned. One thing we got was a fall suit for me. Imagine! We were looking for a dress for Mom and I saw this suit and it just was exactly what I wanted and it was only $11.48. It is just darling, George, and I am sure you will like it. I’ll send you a picture of it. If I come up this winter or spring I will wear it. It is a grey light wool suit. Mom got a new dress, too, to meet Pop in!

The big news of the day. I got my sheep skin today!! Gol-lee do I feel important but I haven’t got my refund yet. I’m so bound up. I think those dumb bunnies down in Eugene have sent that check to Manila where I left my address for my diploma to be sent. I asked where I would leave my address for my refund and they said they would take care of it but I bet the darn suarfs didn’t do it. I wonder if it will still be good by the time I get it?

Wed. I am going to be downtown again to get me some shoes and a hat to go with my new suit. I think I will get a darker shade of grey. June has been with the Weileys all day and they have all been in here yelling around while I have been writing this so I can blame some of the mistakes here in on them.

Darling, this morning was such a blank beginning of this long interlude. I didn’t have you to wake me up.

O, dear, I just remembered a shower for Teepe that I have to go to tonight. Constarie it! I’ll have to hurry so I won’t stop to reread this.

Have a good time, lover, and I hope it isn’t too hot.

All my love, dear, Annie

PS O, dear, I forgot some important news. I saw Keeny downtown and she had just gotten a wire from Web that he had just landed a swell job so I guess it won’t be long now. – A.

Well darling, I didn’t get my letter off after all. I tho’t that that party was this evening but when I call up this girl I found out that I had pulled another of my cute tricks and that the party had been this afternoon. I was relieved that I didn’t have to go but I was a little disappointed that I missed the party because I tho’t it might be about my last chance about to see all the kids. Well then I decided that I would run down to the corner and mail this as long as I couldn’t drop it on the way to the party but then I discovered that we are out of stamps so I gave up and will have to wait until morning to mail it so I tho’t I could add more on to it. Inhale, one, two – whew that was a long sentence but I trust that you understand it. This evening your mother and father came over for a visit. They brought my books over and took the sewing machine back and then your father and I played your mother and mine at pinochle and they won. Your mother had a letter from you too that she left here for me to mail in the morning.

Aren’t Keeny and Web lucky? Mom and I were looking at dresses in Meier and Frank when Keeny came in too. She had to come up to see the doctor and so she was taking advantage of the trip to do some shopping. She said Web had been so excited about his swell job that he couldn’t wait to write and had telegraphed. I said “I guess that meant things to you,” and she said “I guess it does.”

My sweetheart, I’m getting sleepier and sleepier and my mistakes are getting more and more numerous but I wish I could kiss you good night before I go to sleep. I know I could sleep better

More of my love,

Annie