Saturday, November 18 Dear Mamma, What do you know about it! I finished my aquarium, and it holds water — better’n four gallons of it. Two fish have lived happily in it for two days. My success as a carpenter is beginning to peter out though. Betty got a big packing-case from Miller’s to make [more...]
[Probably the 12th or 19th of November, 1933] [The Cole’s house in Interbay, Florida] Jan with her “mother and daddy,” as she grew up to call them. Jan and her mother (Jean Cooper Disbrow), grandmother (Rachel Cole Cooper), and great-grandmother (Ella Bowman Cole). Jan with an unknown person whom I had thought was my great-grandfather [more...]
Tuesday Nite [Detroit, Michigan] Dearest, Well, I got here and settled without any trouble at all. After I wrote you yesterday I went out and found my street and caught a bus that took me within two blocks of the factory. Nablo was out of town until this morning, so I had to get acquainted [more...]
[Probably 22 October, 1933, judging from the Sunday clothes; photos marked “3 weeks,” which would be 25 October] [The Cole’s house, Interbay, Florida] Jan Disbrow with her proud and happy parents, Jean and Bill Disbrow. The Disbrows were living with Jean’s grandparents, Francis and Ella Cole — as well as also, I believe, her parents, [more...]
[10 October, 1933] [Salem, Oregon] Dear Mamma, You should see me swell up with avuncular pomposity — married only nine months and an uncle already! Don’t take up wearing black taffeta because you’re a grandma; keep your hat on one ear in your own swanky way. I certainly wish you were here to bring home [more...]
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