Postmarked Sept. 1, 1933, Oakland Calif.
Addressed to GLH at the Hotel Stevens, Chicago
From AEP
Wednesday morning
George dearest,
We managed to get away yesterday without a mishap. I wrote
you a note yesterday afternoon and then forgot to mail it. I took it down to
the boat with me and was going to ask someone to mail it for me and then I
forgot. We stopped in at Astoria this morning so don’t be stunned when you see
the postmark on it. There is a mailbox on the boat so I will mail you a letter
today and tomorrow but it probably won’t go until we get to San Francisco but
at least I will have had my little daily chat with you. Yesterday I got a
letter and a card from you. You had been visiting a lot of big commercial
concerns and factories. What are you going to do, turn businessman on me? I’ll
have none of that my dear man, come, come.
I am writing this letter in the social hall and the desks
are at the top of the stairs down into the dinning salon and it is still
breakfast time so I have been watching people go down to breakfast. A very
interesting crowd to watch but I haven’t met anybody yet and I haven’t seen
anybody yet that I thought I would be particularly interested in meeting.
Sleepy and I got up early. It was about six fifteen when I
opened my peepers the last time. The first time I woke up this morning was at
four thirty when we were docking at Astoria. Sleepy and I came on deck at about
quarter to seven and watched the tugs playing around the dock. It is cold and
rainy this morning. So we paced the deck until the breakfast gong rang at seven
thirty. We tried to get June up several times but she would just groan and roll
over.
Yesterday afternoon when your father took me down to the
boat, we were coming across the Broadway bridge and he pointed out the boat to
me. I said O, ha, ha, ha, you can’t fool me. That boat’s too small. But sure
enough that was the boat and here we are. It is a small boat and our cabin is
on the third deck down so imagine if you can what that motion is going to be
like. To make matters worse we are right near the kitchen. But I think we will
get along all right and I think I am going to like it much better than the
train.
June and I were so pleased because so many people came down
to the boat to see us off. Mrs. Meyers and her son, all the Wylies, Mary Dixon
and Ruth, Dorothy and Carol, Nancy Richards (friend of June’s), Doro and Jean,
and then your father brought us down. We got down to the boat about eight put
our things in the cabin and then went up on deck.
Doro and Jean were already there. Doro brought me a box of
fudge. She said it seemed like old times making fudge for me only she felt as
tho’ she ought to wrap it for mailing and put Crater Lake on it. The Wylies
brought us each a box of candy, too.
Everybody waited until the boat pulled away. They passed out streamers
on the boat and we threw them to our friends on the dock. My but it was hard to
say goodbye to all of them. Your father helped us so much when we were getting
away.
We haven’t hit the ocean yet. That’s when we will get the
roll. I hope this dark rainy weather doesn’t mean that it is storming outside.
I saw Adele just before I left and she is just itching to get up so I guess
that’s a pretty good sign. Darling, write me often this next year. I miss you
terribly.
Love, Annie
Postmarked Aug 31, 1933, Bend, Oregon
Addressed to GLH, 5836 Race Ave., Chicago, Ill. c/o I.H.
Wells
Aug. 30, 1933
Hello Darling,
Judging from your letter, which Dad has just forwarded to
me, you don’t like the big city. You don’t know dear how much I appreciate your
subscribing for the Journal for me. This shall be my birthday gift from you,
now don’t spend any more money on me, please, as you must go slow. Ann, June
& Sleepy left Portland last night at 9PM Aug 29th. They will
arrive in San Francisco about the same time Mr. & Mrs. Powell and Eleanor
will get there. And then I think they will go to Clear Lake. Ann said she would
leave a forwarding address so I know she will get your mail until she can give
you her new address.
I can’t seem to scratch for any news from home. As I am in
Bend & Dad just said in his letter he and Grandma had a very pleasant trip
down.
I fixed Grandma’s flower bed today and made my first cake in
a wood oven and it turned out OK.
How are you getting by in the heat? I thought perhaps you
did not take enough shirts with you.
Please let me know when you expect to be in Portland so I
can plan to be there at that time also.
The nights are real cold here and we had a fire last evening
to keep warm. Oregon has been having some terrible forest fires and the place
is covered with smoke. Millions of dollars of timber have been destroyed and
much of it around Forest Grove.
I must drop a line to Dad. Remember me to Mrs. Wells and
love and kisses to you dear.
Mother
I wonder if you got the pajamas I mailed at the Stevens
hotel???
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