The Letters in the Antique Trunk, Part 10

Date:  October 28, (1900,1906 or 1917?)

From:  Freeta Anderson in Glen Elder, Kansas

To:  L.J. Anderson

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Glen Elder Oct the 28

My Dear husband,

This is Sunday and I am a lone. Jalen and Elda whent to church. I rec. your letter yest day and was very glad to hear from you for it seems to me like you was going two months.

I am well. Mrs. Frank Peaslee died on Oct the 24 and John Dickinson is married. I get one egg a day. The calf died with the black.

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My dear you dond know how lonesome it is with out you. We hate a nice rain a week ago. This is all for this time. Rite soon. Yours as ever. Your wife.

Hear is a kiss my dearest.

Write soon.

Dond be long.

The Letters in the Antique Trunk, Part 9

Date: July 19, 1912

From: L.J. Anderson in Glen Elder, Kansas

To: Freeta Anderson

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July 19, 1912
Glen Elder (Kansas)

Dear Wife,

I will drop you a one or two.

I am well and doing very well. Have made 42 dollars and will send you a draft for forty, and you can put it in the dank (bank), and if you wish to you come up and visit. A week will do you good.

I just got in 12 ½ days harvest. Finished today. Worked two Sundays. Will start to hitching to a thrashing machine tomorrow. So you see I aim to keep buisy. Will go with Ralph’s machine. I am not sure just what they are going to pay, but I think 2.50.

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I got your letter and was glad to hear but very sorry you are feeling bad. Hope you are better. Hope you will keep well. Drop me word often and let me know you and every thing is. Corn is swell here. Garden is good. Potatoes are large. We have had three little rains but no good. Nead rain.  Hot winds are blowing nearly every day. I feel very good. Eat well, working hard, sweating. Well wheat is good in places and some no good.

I seen Silvy today. She has no colt yet, but will pretty soon. He dread her to George Gishes horse. I am going to get that [tam] if I can.

The Letters in the Antique Trunk, Part 8

Date: July 16, 1912

From: L.J. Anderson in Glen Elder, Kansas

To: Freeta Anderson

July 16, 1912
Glen Elder
Kans

Well this is Tues and I were at the office Monday morning and got your letter. Was glad to but sorry that your mother is sick. Hope that she is better now. If she don’t get better you had better go and see her. You rite bigger letters and tell me how every thing is. I suppose corn is silking by this time. Would like to see every thing. Hope you have had some rain by this time. Looks like it may be raining down there. Does the wind blow? We have had some wind here the past week. This leaves me til good by.

The Letters in the Antique Trunk, Part 7

Date: December “Dezember” (?), 1900

From: Unknown in Glen Elder, Kansas

To: Unknown

The Letters in the Antique Trunk, Part 6

Date: December 2, 1900

From: Pauline

To: Freeta

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Taloga, (Oklahoma Territory)  Dec. the 2, 1900

My dearest sister

This is Sunday.

Bob has gone over to Lenora, and I am all alone. Oh how I wish that you could come to see me ore I go to see you. I do want to see you so much. How nice it use to be when we could go to see one another when ever we wanted to, and now to think that we are so far away from one another

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just because we got married.

But such is life. We all have to part some day. You don’t know how lonesome I feel down here, and to think that I have to live down here forever. George was here and took dinner with me the other day. John has not arrived here yet. I live in the house where Mr. Springsteen lived. I don’t like to keep house very well. I couldn’t hardly give up working out, for I did injoy it.