To Bertha from Cora Hendricks –
Fort Logan, Colorado
September 29, 1920
Dear girlie,
I had a nice long letter for you Monday and Papa had one today, so that is two since I wrote you. I have enjoyed these so much, but I have felt quite anxious about you not having any warmer clothing when it turned so suddenly cold. We send you trunk by express and I trust you will very soon have it. Your raincoat and wool stockings you should have now, I think. I hope you get that stove very soon. I know how you feel the cold and it is enough in itself to make you blue.
Would you like to have your sleeping bag? I wish you were here, it is the most perfect weather and I do miss you very much.
I have a great time trying to get the house fixed up. I work every day a little longer than I intend to and accomplish a great deal less than I intend to. However, it is coming, and, I do enjoy it, for it is such a pleasure to Papa to see the place grow homelike.
Poor fellow! He has lived in an empty house so long and he likes all our pretty things as much as any of us do. I don’t know but even more. Today I worked on the hall a little while and really did make quite a change and he came in and seemed so pleased with the result that I wanted to do a lot more right away.
Did you get the reading lamp Papa said he sent you? He has just now been putting the gooseneck lamp together. I am going to send you other stockings as soon as I can, but I am not going very fast with them. I got four balls of yarn which looked as big s the other balls and I doubt if it going to be enough. I may have to make the toes of something else.
I suppose you have heard from Sally, for she said she was going to write to you as soon as she could, and certainly by Sunday. I am glad she is so pleased with her roommate and hope they continue to get on well together.
I am going to be very much interested in seeing the pictures you have taken. Also, I shall be interested to know if your troublesome boy continues to be good and what kind of people his family _____ to be. I am glad you have found someone to wash for you, it is too much for you to have to wash everything for yourself in addition to all your other work. You will have quite enough of it, if you only do what you cannot trust to someone else. I meant to have done a little pressing this afternoon, but decided to wait until another day, when I saw what time it was after I had gotten cleaned up. You would certainly laugh if you could see the stuff I have spread about in the unused rooms here. I have just spread everything as I came to it so that we could sort and see where to put things. Just now curtains I am most concerned with, how to make what I have work to the best advantage. I believe there are enough, such as they are.
Mrs. Caples’ mother leaves this evening. I think _____ _____ goes in a few days, but Mrs. H and the children are to wait here until their belongings reach the new station.
We are having a concert now. I do most thoroughly approve of this band. They play all the kind of music I like. I have a picture of Sally here for you and will mail it soon. By the way, I sent you the Army and Navy Journal, if you think of it when you are through reading it, send it to either Lenn or Sally.
Your loving mother.
Lenn’s address is 306 East Madison Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan.