May 10, 1962 envelope
Letter transcription:
May 10, 1962, p. 1
Kentland, May 10, 62
Dear David
Thank you for your two good letters since I have written you. You do indeed have a busy week, and today you are going your observation and taking a test. I hope the weather is better there for your ROTC parades than it is here. It has been rainy all week, and quite cold. Right now we are having a cold rain, with a lot of thunder.
I haven’t seen your mother, but I presume they went to Bloomington on May 2nd. You didn’t mention it. I thought of you all that day, and hoped you were together.
I have the Post with the Nixon article, and started to read it last night, but had callers so will finish it sometime today. I read the book condensation that ran for several months in Reader’s Digest of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I was glad I read it, for a lot of things I had not realized, or had forgotten.
I now understand how you can enjoy seeing a movie more than once, because I am sure I could see Pocketful of Miracles again with great enjoyment.
Your colored church dinner must have been quite an experience and no doubt delicious. In the old days when we had the dining room operating in the hotel at Mattoon, there was an elderly colored woman in charge of the kitchen and the food she turned out was wonderful, at least it seems so to me now, and I don’t think it is entirely nostalgia.
I pray that nothing interferes with your attending the State Convention. That would be just tragic. You just must go.
We are having a good week of business for a change, in fact the last two weeks have been better. But for goodness sake, look at where AT & T is today. The stock market started to fall and has fallen steadily ever since Kennedy and the steel affair. He scared business to death and it won’t recover in a hurry. I mean big business. I hope he’s satisfied. I would hate to have to sell at the present price. Still he wants to withhold 20 percent of the dividends.
May 10, 1962, p. 2
I read a lot in the papers about your new President, Mr. Stahr. From his history he should be qualified. I am enclosing some clippings from the Trib.
Yesterday I went to Watseka to Dr. Wood to have my feet taken care of. He is the only podiatrist closer than Lafayette. Our maid drove me in Harold’s car. Marie brought me an armload of lilac from her yard, and they are so fragrant and lovely, a real breath of spring.
Now please don’t work too hard, and I will be anxious to know how your tests came out, and how you survived your busy week.
By for now
Grandma Ruth
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“going your observation” should read “doing” Alas, this reference escapes me.
I hated ROTC.
I remember very well taking her to see Pocketful of Miracles when it played in Kentland. The film was sentimental fluff based on a Damon Runyon story, starring Bette Davis. It was a good time, and I would even see it again today!
“I pray that nothing interferes with your attending the State Convention.” I presume this had something to do with politics, but I don’t recall it at all now. Unless it was the Boys State Convention. I did attend one of those.