Nov 11, 2011

Tue, Nov 11, 1941: hadn’t heard

"Dear DeVere:- Another week has rolled around so fast it seems.  Suppose you made it O.K. to Winfield last Mon.  Rev. Nicholson said he had seen you two or three times last week so we're pretty sure you got there but hadn't heard from you....
"Daddy can't get into the field to cut his kaffir so he is topping by hand all he can.  Wayne Beatty from south of here helped yesterday and Jay Causey helped Saturday."
--Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans., Tuesday, November 11, 1941.  Like a lot of college freshmen, my father apparently was not writing home as much as his mother would have liked.

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