George darling,
I has been quite a few days since I have written you a real
letter, dear, but it isn’t because I haven’t tho’t of you. I think of you all
the time, dear. It will be an even longer time between letters at your end
because I found out that it will take twice as long for my letters to get to
you from here as it did from Berkeley because they have to go clear back to San
Francisco before it goes on up to you. I should have written to you last night
because I got three lovely letters from you yesterday but Pop and I took the
night off and went to see “Morning Glory”, which by the way I tho’t was very
good, and the house was dark and everybody was in bed so I went to bed, too,
when we got home. It is so hard to write a letter to you these nights because
our lights are from our own Delco plant which is on the blink now and we have
to use a kerosene lamp. The whole family is sitting around it talking and
reading and I can’t feel as close to you as I would like to. Darling, I was so
pleased with the letter that I got from you this morning. It was the one about
early marriages. Are you changing your ideas, dear? I do hope you are because
that would mean that we could be together so much sooner! We were talking about
that here the other night, too. Mr. Cresap said he believed absolutely in early
marriages. He said if you wait you don’t get married. See dear? Pop said that
when he married Mom he owed $500 and borrowed the money for the honeymoon and
Mr. Cresap said he owed $1,000. O, darling please, don’t let’s wait too long.
Mom and Pop both taught night school after they were married to pay off the
debt but they were together!
We haven’t got this house cleaned up yet. We do something
everyday. But we will have everything fixed up before long. When we get
everything running smoothly I will have time to try some pies and cakes. I
wrote to Mrs. Larson tonight and I will be sending you some cookies before very
long. So far I haven’t had much time to fuss with fancy things because except
for about an hour before each meal I haven’t spent much time in the kitchen. We
have to get the house clean first. This afternoon I took time off and went
swimming. I haven’t had any exercise for so long that I am pretty tired
tonight. I am tired every night but I am particularly tonight. Don’t let anyone
ever tell you that this farmer’s daughter business is any snap. It’s all in
getting used to a thing tho’ and we’ll get this thing down to a science. I am
keeping the accounts, for the kitchen so I am getting some practice. I am sure
that I could work beautifully on a budget.
By the way, sweetheart, you haven’t told me whether you
deposited our pennies or not. I am very interested in them. I haven’t been
putting pennies in a bank but I have been saving them. Did you do anything with
that book of green stamps that I left on your dresser? I found some more in my
suit case so I am enclosing them in this letter.
Lover, I am so tired my writing is getting worse and worse
and with all these people talking around me I can’t write a decent letter but,
darling, I love you and I always will!
Good night, dear
Annie
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