Sun, Jan 10, 1943: a cold

                                       "Leon Kansas
                                       "Jan. 10, 1943.
“Dearest ‘Sonny’--The first letter to write this year and I didn't put 1942!  How are you making out since vacation? 
"I haven't done so well.  Seemed like I felt tired all last week and by Fri. evening I really had a cold.... Don't know yet whether or not I will try to have school to-morrow.  Surely hate to miss as that will put us farther up in the spring getting out...."

--Letter from my grandmother, Jessie Maybelle (Berger) Brown, 45 years old, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Sidney DeVere Brown, age 17, Winfield, Kans., Sunday, January 10, 1943.  My grandmother taught grade school in Bloomington.