Letter from Dee — two-page spread (final + middle pages), '…I love you both — Dee'
Book 3, Page 13 ·1945–1965
Transcription
Left half (duplicate of scan 014):
has anything left to breathe with at all. So it looks as though my prayers will be answered — coma and not hemorrhage. He is rousing up now and wants to try to stack money from Bob’s pig. So I’ll say good-night and I love you both —
Dee.
Right half (duplicate of scan 016):
get it good & flat. Then into a cheese glass goes half a sma[ll] jigger of bourbon, 1 piece of ice, a dash of water for melted ice and flat ginger ale. He thinks its wonderful. There are two things, Tressie, you have to answer for — (1) How did he know about your drinks; (2) don’[t] you think it’s a terrible heritage to give a child — a taste for flat ginger ale? You’ll never hear the last of that one!!
Tom Dast said today Puck is going purely on will power — that he can’t see where he…
AI Notes
A two-page spread photographed together: at left is the final page of the letter (text identical to scan 014, the same sheet) ending ‘…I love you both — Dee’, and at right is a middle page of the same letter (text identical to scan 016). The writer is Emma Dee Walker Corbell (b. 1915) — confirmed as the canonical ‘Dee’ in this archive — writing to her parents about her young son ‘Puck,’ the family doctor’s verdict on his recovery, and a teasing aside to ‘Tressie’ about flat-ginger-ale cocktails. References Tom Dast (the family doctor; surname uncertain — could be ‘Bast’ or ‘Bost’), Bob, and ‘Bob’s pig’ (a piggy bank). Companion pages 014 (final) and 016 (middle) carry the same text on their separate scans.
‘Tom Dast’ surname is read with moderate confidence — the capital letter is ambiguous between B and D in this hand. Given the medical context the writer may mean a family physician; the surname is preserved as ‘Dast’ from the original reading and from the companion scan 016. Both halves of the spread are independently scanned as 014 (left) and 016 (right); this combined image is in the album for completeness.