Postmark Sept 8, Berkeley Calif.
TO GLH in Portland
From AEP in Berkeley
Thursday
Dearest George,
Well this morning Mom and Pop got off to Lakeport but I
didn’t go with them. Pop is so big and Mom so wide that three of us in the seat
was impossible and I refused the rumble seat. We haven’t got our car yet but
Mr. Cresap has a convertible coupe that we have been using.
Sweetheart, I am so sorry about my letters. You said you
wouldn’t get any over Labor Day but you hoped you would get a stack on Tuesday.
And you didn’t did you, dear. I am so sorry. By that time they were all at the
hotel. You got a stack when you got there, didn’t you? I depend so much on your
letters, dear. I was so glad to get your letter today and know that you weren’t
taken by that nasty cold. You certainly had a wonderful time at Chicago, didn’t
you? I would like to have watched the Air Races with you, I’ll bet they were
thrilling.
Well, darling, tonight is the last one at convention. I
wonder what you are doing. You set out early tomorrow I should imagine. Did you
have to take any nips to be a good “guy”? I’m proud of you, dear, being made
chairman of a committee. You must be one pretty swell guy if they could pick
you out without ever seeing you. Now of course I would have picked you out in a
minute but then those men probably weren’t as smart as I am.
Betty Ruggles and Hauela were over to see me today. They are
both just the same. Ruggy laughs just as much as ever. She went to Berkeley Hi,
too. So Monday she is going to meet June for lunch and introduce her to some
girls that smoke. Poor June has been almost pining away. Lavinia is rather a
prude and both she and her mother frown on smoking. So that was one of the
conditions that Mom set up. That is she stayed here and went to Berkeley Hi,
she must not smoke in this house.
Hauela knew Tom Moran’s sisters. She gave me their address
and I think I will call up Tom about tomorrow. I kept planning to ask you in
one of my letters but I would always forget.
Well, I turned cook, today, and my first attempt was pretty
successful (I think). Today was the maid’s day off so Lavinia and I were to get
dinner tonight. So I made ginger bread for desert. We had it hot with whipped
cream on it. Everyone pronounced it very good. It did taste pretty good and was
light enough but I have a stomach ache. I don’t know whether it was the ginger
bread or the ham I ate. I hope it wasn’t the former. Nobody else had an ache
tho’.
Today I finished “Maid in Waiting” and started “Flowering
Wilderness”. I just loved the story and the people.
Well, lover another good night and I love you, dear - Ann
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