Dear James,
Just a few lines. Received two letters from you yesterday. Am sorry about the leg. Keep off it as much as possible when you are not working. Am glad you saw the Board of Education and found that John has such a good record there. We are waiting to see what happens next about the school here. The children are quite contented. Ruth is learning to knit and John spends most of the time out of doors. The weather is very mild.
(Fri. eve)
Dear James,
Your package came today and also a nice letter. The temp. has been up to 50 above for the last 2 days. Can you manage things so that we can come down by March 1st? You will have to talk things over with the landlady of course. Another catalogue came today, that makes five. The children were pleased with their pin cushions. They’ve been doing a lot of sewing and swiped my pins, and then I’d sweep a dozen or two up every day so having the pin cushions they can keep track of their needles and pins better. John has the green one and Ruth the pink one.
We’re going to feast on pancakes tomorrow morning. We’ve been eating oatmeal for a week. I don’t know what to tell you to send until we decide how long we are to be here, except milk of course. We’re all out of white sugar. You can send some dried fruit too. I’m almost too tired to think. I’m going to wash up and go to bed, it is 10:30. “We’ll be seeing you.”
With love, Martha