Browsing the archives for the Letter From Florence category
8/6/1924 My very onliest, darlingest, sweetest, and most precious Cap’n Big Boy. Want me to tell you a secret? Huh – well, here is it! Sh_______? —> I love you! How’s the great big beautiful world this morning? Hot? I guess so. Tonite is the nite of your test. I’ll think of you, dear boy, [...]
Sat Dear Old Timer. Just a word for Mon. I don’t know whether I can write tomorrow. I never know what Sun will bring. But I want you to know I am thinking of you, love you, etc, and as long as it only takes 2 cents to tell you so, I’m not too proud [...]
9:15 pm Sunday The Alamo City Texas My Dearest Big Boy, Hero to the rescue! Please come help me. You never knew a more tired more utterly worn out and bruised girl in you life. Oh, I’m impossibly sore! and sick! In the first place. I’m so darned homesick I could cry with every breath-and [...]
Thursday Dearest of all dears, Wish I could instill some of my pep into you. It would be so easily done. But the only way to instil that pep is thru letter. Man, first let me tell you. I went swimming yesterday and oh, such a delicious swim! It had been so hot all [...]
Say, out of a perfectly wonderfully clear sky it started pouring down rain – Does it do that in El Campo? June 17, 1924 Dear Fred Were you a trifle disappointed because you didn’t get a letter from me today? Forgive me, Fred. I really intended to write, but I just didn’t. There’s no excuse. [...]
6-16-24 Monday Read other letters first. Dearest big sweetheart. I received that precious little ring case this morning. I just love it so, because it was just typical of you. I appreciate it more than I can ever, ever, ever tell you. Thank you so much, dear. I’ll give you a very sweet one (????) [...]
Sunday Let me know eggs actly when you get in and I might be able to meet u! Hi there old skyscraper! (I’m a bungalow beside you. You’re the Woolworth bldg! Being so tall, u no! and me being such a small inconsequential himan. You know, they call me Shorty.) So!!!!! After all, there’s no [...]
Monday Someone was kind enough to donate a box of candy to the worthy cause. I never get anything that I don’t try to share with you. So here’s part of the candy – Eat it with my compliments! Wish you could eat some of the chocolates. You’re not in training, and they’re so good, [...]
June 13, 1924 Cap.n Big Boy – dearest Beloved, You’re way way up north – way far away from Houston and Florence way up there with some more of your kind. It’s a little different from being down here where people look up to you, isn’t it? Up there, there’s so many good men who are [...]
Mr. F. J. Stancliff Boston, Mass To be opened June 13 at nite after the preliminaries. Freddy boy, now that things are beginning to come your way. And you’re “star” athlete in a school where athletes hold full sway, And the girls and boys of the Institute all know you for what you are, And [...]
