Letter from Dee — page on Dad's visit, Aunt Anne and the vases
Book 2, Page 168 ·1940
Transcription
having Dad with us tomorrow. I’ve been hoping all day there would be a wire saying he had changed his plans so he could spend the day with us. It’ll be so long before there’s another chance to catch a glimpse of him unless he makes a special trip this winter — and he has never done that before! Think you could make him stop over coming back in spite of the dreadful connections? Give him my love —
Tell aunt Anne what I told you about keeping the vases awhile for me, will you? I do appreciate
AI Notes
Continuation page of the August 1940 letter from Dee. She writes of looking forward to having Dad (James Pickens Walker) with them tomorrow and her disappointment that he had not wired to extend his visit, urging her mother to make him stop over on the return trip in spite of the dreadful train connections. She also asks her mother to remind ‘aunt Anne’ (Anna Walker Modisette, in Philippi, W.Va., where the compiler was summering) about keeping some vases awhile for her. The leaf is mounted out of natural reading order — narratively this page follows page 166 and precedes the closing on page 167. Written in graphite pencil on the same cream notepaper.