Friday
night June 16,
Dearest Mother & Dad:
It is in haste that I am writing this but I did so want to get you a Father’s Day card and some little rememberance but I just haven’t had the chance to get away. So at least I thought I would drop you a few lines to tell you that I still love you both, and think of you, even if I haven’t put my thoughts into writing.
We are
in a revival meeting and it closes on Sunday night the 18th. I don’t believe I told you about it, so you
know I have been busy entertaining theevangelists. We have a lady preacher and singer who work together and they are
staying with us. They both sing and
play accordian, guitar and piano. They
are lovely girls from Terre Haute, Ind.
Before they came the church gave us $22 for their board and brought in
butter, vegetables, etc. etc. and then
when Ed didn’t get back on his job they paid our house rent. We appreciate this for we know it meant a
sacrifice on the part of some. But then we really enjoy giving most when it
means a little sacrifice, don’t we?
The
girls are real good to help with the dieshes, etc. but yet there has been
cooking, washing and ironing and I’ve been busy. I tried to put up some strawberry jam, too, as strawberries are
so cheap and I didn’t want to miss out all together.
Now
being as the church paid our last month’s rent and being as the whole WPA
project will be shut down the week of July 4th, we feel it will be
our best opportunity to come home then if it is O.K. with you. We will let you know later just what day we
will come but we do want to come home that week the Lord willing. We are so anxious to see you and we want
you, Mama, to remember we’re just your children, and please let the work up to
me. I can well handle the job. I’d enjoy being with you if I had to scrub
all the while I was there. It’s YOU
whom we want to see. So you please let
us know if it will be O.K. for us to come so we can get someone to supply our
pulpit on the Sunday of July 2.
Rec’d Skandia, also Uncle Charlie’s letter
and card. I couldn’t keep the tears
from coming as I read his sweet letter.
I will write him at Renova, or maybe he is at his camp. Give me the address where to write him. He still calls me his “lilla Rut” and says I
will always be that to him. How I would
love to see him!
Well if these plans go through it will only
be a couple more weeks till we’ll be there and then I can tell you all I would
like to have written, but now it is the time to go to service, so I’ll have to
bring this letter to a close.
Hope you
have a real happy Father’s Day, Daddy, and remember my thoughts are with you on
your Day.
Lots of
love and prayers,
Your Brown children
|
Ruth V. Brown, of
Toledo, Ohio, wrote this one page letter in 1933 to her parents Johan &
Anna Rosenberg, in Erie, Pennsylvania.
It was discovered in the effects of the Rosenbergs inherited by David
Kendall and sent to Jim
Brown in September 2000. It has
been transcribed in its entirety as originally typed even with the same font
as you see here, complete with the same indentation, punctuation, &
spelling mistakes. The original
letter contained five typeovers, which the transcriber was unable to
duplicate on the computer. |
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