Letter from Dee, closing page — getting used to a husband, signed 'Dee'
Book 2, Page 167 ·1940
Transcription
her sweet letter and have wanted to write but you know how busy I’ve been — and now — well — I’m still trying to get used to having a husband every night! Not that I’d give it up — it’s wonderful — but just when does one wash clothes & hair & manicure nails!
My love to all,
Dee.
AI Notes
Closing page of a letter from Dee (Emma Dee Walker Corbell) to her mother. Picks up mid-sentence referring to a ‘sweet letter’ Dee has been meaning to answer; jokes that she is still getting used to having a husband at home every night and wondering when one washes clothes, hair, and manicures nails. Signed ‘Dee.’ The leaf is mounted out of natural reading order in the album: in narrative sequence this page follows page 168 (which begins with ‘having Dad with us tomorrow’).
The signature “Dee” identifies the writer as Emma Dee Walker Corbell, the compiler’s daughter, who had been married to Robert Lawrence Corbell Jr. of Portsmouth, Va. since October 1937; the joke about getting used to having a husband at home suggests Robert had recently completed a long stint of work or travel away from Richmond.