Addressed to:
Mr. Guy Daines
c/o Mr. H. Reed
Box 83
Newport Ky
Postmarked 10:00 AM
Dated in the upper right-hand corner: April 28, 1934
My dear Guy;
I received your letter yesterday. You said that you haven't heard from me for a few days, well, it isn't my fault for I write almost every day. Reedy mustn't send them as soon as he gets them. There must be about five letters on the way.
Your batting average is swell, keep it up don't let any of the other players get mad at you.
You don't sound as tho you care for Florida very much. What's wrong are you getting tired of it all ready. guy I never see "Vince" "Bob" comes down home all the time but I suppose that "Vince's" work keeps him away.
That Hotel at Monticello must have been the last rose of summer if they didn't even have stationary.
Glenn is just the type to pull something dirty on someone. I guess that Stroufe will get even with him some way. I went out on 12th st. to see a game Fri. but is was just a practice game. the big fellows like Ed and Roy Styles, Johnny Vald and Ed Kilmer were playing their( last pages are lost)
(These pages were found)
In an envelope dated, May 4th:
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little brothers, you should have seen it, boy it was pitiful. I went over the river Friday to get the picture that Mom had taken of Charles and Jerry. There was a man there and I had to ask him for the picture. I was trying to use the best English that I had ever learned. Then that big boyo turns around and says "Pardon me for asking the question, but are you a foreigner" when I ask him why he said, " well you certainly talk like on" Was I sore. Plenty. people told me that I talk like a southerner and that's bad enough. For when I was in grade school they made me play all the negro parts but talking like a foreigner and being told that burnt me up. I think I'll take a course in English perhaps that will help me a little.
I just got home from up the 10 [cent] store it's about 11 o'clock. boy and is my feet barking their just sc--ream--ing.
The radio just signed off so I guess that I'll have to sign off too
Love an kisses for you
Ange
PS Let me hear from you. Lots.
These letters were in diferent envelopes, I do not know why. Perhaps it was late when she wrote it as she just walked home from her job (?) and she accidentally mailed the first part separately. I do not know, but I am glad to have found it. I do not remember my grandmother talking strangely, but I do know that when I went to graduate school in Missouri I was pronouncing words quite differently than some other students. Once, my Gram said that when she lived in New York, while my grandfather was in the Navy (World War II) that she had people that would follow her and ask her where she was from, and tell her that they loved just to hear her talk. I miss her voice as well, now, because I cannot remember exactly how she pronounced certain words, and maybe she was so "burnt up" that she really did work very hard to re-learn how to speak correctly. I also remember her saying that she did not speak until she was about 6 or 7 years old.
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