Browsing the archives for the Port Arthur tag
Thurs nite My Darling Florence; I have something very good to tell you. What is it? Well, I am going to be in Houston Sat nite. Yes! Sat. Think of it. I have figured out a way in which I can do it. Here it is. I will quit work at 2 (reg time, 3) [...]
Port Arthur, Tex Sept 4, 1923 My Dearest Florence; Do you know what I am thinking of most, right now? Just four more days in P.A. I will be measuring the time in hours before long. At six-oclock Sunday morning I leave P.A. How happy I will be. Think of it. Just four more days [...]
Fri afternoon Dearest boy – Only a line for right now. I’m off the world again – off so far that it’s going to take a few tons of cement to stock back on. I can’t tell you about it – but things are pretty dark now. I’m headed for a couple of girl’s homes [...]
Port Arthur Aug 31, 1923 My Dearest Florence; Last nite I spent a long time writing to you and when I was about half way through Roy Chambers came in and so I did not finish it. So I will try again. I have been so busy that I have not had any time to [...]
Port Arthur, Tex Aug 29, 1923 My Dearest Florence; I thinks, thinks I, that I will write to the dearest little girl in all dis world. The boys wanted me to go to town, but I wanted to write, so I did not. I don’t know what to say tho’. Isn’t that queer. We had [...]
Aug 28 – 23 to Port Arthur Dear Cap’n Fred – I nearly fainted this morning when I got your letter. I was never so surprised-!! I’m really glad to find something has made you think of me. From the past few letters the thoughts of me seem few and far between. I can’t say [...]
Port Arthur, Tex Aug 28, 1923 Florence, My Dearest; Oh, what a grand letter from you today. You made me feel so good and tears came in my eyes because I was not in Houston. What would you say and do if I told you something that would make you feel so good. Would you [...]
Port Arthur Aug 27, 1923 My Dearest Florence; I know you will be so surprised to get this so soon after the other but I have been thinking of you so much today that I just had to write to you and spend a few minuted with you. I have to wait for time to [...]
Port Arthur, Tex Aug 26, 1923 My Dearest Florence; I have been thinking of you so much today and that it is only three weeks until I will be gone from here. Maybe never to return. I was so mad tonite I could have fought. They have no system whatever to traffic regulations. There were [...]
Wed nite 11 p.m. Dearest, dearest Fred – It’s late. The clock has just struck 11. I’ve just gotten home from a picture-show “Enemies of Women”. It was terribly boring. And all the time I thought – you were working- working and waiting for the time to pass til you can come back to me. [...]
