Ethel to Lester, August 27, 1936

Aug 27, 1936 Cleveland O.

Dearest darling husband:

Darling, received your most welcome and appreciated bank money order, but who addressed the envelope. I knew that wasn’t your handwriting and got scared, that maybe something happened to my honey. Sweetie, if you know are going to be in Buffalo on a Sunday all day on Sandusky, send me a telegram and I’ll come running to you. I’m so tired now, we are busy now at the office. Am working 8 ½ hours a day and all day Saturdays. But I guess I’m getting a little fatter again, At least I’m sure getting plenty of sleep.
Honey, I was thinking od sending your hat to the Cleaners and have it stretched and cleaned. Shall I or are you going to get a new one. One sure thing you are going to get and that’s a new overcoat.
It certainly is beginning to look we are going to have war. Stalin told his men to be ready for the momentous ocassion may come at any time now. Roosevelt made a speech promising to do his best to keep U.S. out of it. There was a new comentator on the radio tonite and he says that some day we will know and give credit to the Catholic churches in Spain for their part in their war.
We gave Bounce a dose of caster oil the other day, but it didn’t seem to help him. He is so thin and just won’t eat.
Do you think its possible you may come to Cleveland this time? I hope so. Have you still got your tummy. I like to be cuddled up against it this minute. Boy, what I wouldn’t give for a nice cold winter evening.
There is a young married couple living up in the block and they have a baby a year old and she got that way again, so she took off from work and got rid of it and she looks terrible. I’ll show you, her sometime.
You remember that movie we saw, “Mutiny on the Bounty,” well the other when mother and I were at the show, they had one of those funny cartons and it was the very same thing.
Please let me know if you got my letter at Mackinaw, so I’ll know next time whether to write there or not. I wrote you a letter before I knew where you were going and it is waiting up at the Soo for you. Nothing much in it, cause I’m a very poor letter writer.
Do you know these kids on Sedalia? I haven’t heard from any of your people. I suppose when once calls they all will.
Well sweetie I ought to be getting to bed cause I get up at 6.15. Darling, you are being careful aren’t you? I don’t worry quite so much now as I do when the weather gets bad. I think if you sail again I will just have to go along. Don’t you need that jacket you bought? Do you think this boat will run up to the very last minute? Oh boy, just wait till you get home for good. We got a lot of loving to make up, don’t you think? I wish you would be home for Thanksgiving any how.
Well, darling, I got to close now, and have such a back ache I can’t sit up and write anymore but will write in a few days. It makes it hard when you go to Milwaukee I don’t know where to write to But honey, I love you just oodles and oodles and write to me some more. Your loving wife Ethel

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