November 24, 1933 - Friday

George Darling,

Those letters that I had to write last night still haven’t been written. But you should see what I have done today. This morning except for going to town I didn’t have time to do anything except mend a few stockings but this afternoon and evening I made over the coat of my black suit and it certainly looks better and more stylish. Just wait until I strut for you up in the great city of Portland. Along with my other accomplishments I am becoming a great maker over!

Tomorrow, I have some more stockings to darn and maybe I will get started on my formal. I still have a little sewing to do on the blouse that goes with my black suit.

I certainly miss your letters. I like to answer your letters but it’s hard to do when I don’t have any to answer. I know, dear, how hard you are studying and I hope that you will just wiz thru those old exams. But I am worried about your health. Don’t wear yourself out.

While I was down in San Francisco I got my Christmas presents but when I got home I found that I had forgotten Grover and Sleepy so I will have to do some more up here.

Darling, I am only thinking about my trip north these days. I do hope the weather is nice while we are there because I want Pop to love it as I do.

I love you, and good night, lover.

Ann

To: GLH, Chi Psi Lodge, Eugene

Hello dear:

Just finished a letter to my other beau and now one to you. I rec’d one from La Grande and he said he received a letter from you which made him very happy.

I shall try and keep you filled up on egg nogs when you get home, but we can’t feed them to Annie because she will get too fat, what to do about it, la la. And if you leave the most on the drain board each time you make one I will bless Margaret for telling you how to make them.

We are having much fog up here, and yesterday it did not lift all day and about three in the afternoon it was so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Don’t worry about the ritual dear, it’s perhaps not the first one that has been bungled, we merit by experience and you will do better each time. Always remember one thing. When you see a man about twice your age doing a certain thing well, he has had much experience along that particular line and you are only just at the beginning, so don’t allow yourself to get down. I wish you could read the article about Lawrence Tibbet, our baritone opera singer, and the struggle he had to get where he is. It would perhaps give you a little more courage to go on. Everything that is worthwhile, is worth the struggle we have to get there. You may see someone who seemingly gets his lessons without much effort, but his struggles will be no less when he gets out among the world. Just as one would think, because Lawrence Tibbet had the voice. There would be nothing to it his success was assured, but he had personality and his own appearance against him and many other things.

Yes I know Anne is rather lax person in her corresponding, but as long as she write to you, that’s OK with me. I shall be very glad to see her though, no fooling.

Love and kisses, Mother