Mombasa December 29 Dear folks, Well, today I got your letter which you wrote on December 18 and I was certainly glad to hear from you. It seems like ages and ages ago since I left home and so many things have come along my pathway that it seems as if I’ve been in another …
December 25, 1950 My dear ones, I shall begin this and I’ll mail it when we get to Mombasa as that will be our next stop at the end of this week. It is now 3:15 p.m. and I guess that you are nine hours behind us so that makes it around 6:15 a.m. for …
Aden, Arabia December 24, 1950 Sunday Dear folks, The day before Christmas, and all on the ship, waiting to go ashore. How strange to think that it is December 24. We are anchored out in the bay waiting to go into the harbor later. We are near rugged rocky formations (small islands, I guess) projecting …
December 12, 1950 Marseilles, France Dear folks, I sent you an air mail today so now I’ll write this and have it ready to mail tomorrow when we are in Genoa. I really haven’t much to say but thought I’d write anyway and tell you what we did today in this place. We really had …
A hello to everyone. December 9, 1950 Near Gibraltar Dear folks, They gave us this air mail and said that if we get it written by six o’clock tonight it can be posted at Gibraltar so here goes. We are due there tomorrow. Today has been the first real nice day, one that is warm …
London December 2 and 3 Dear folks, I’ll begin this tonight. You see I’m re-reading your letters which you sent to the boat, since I have no others, and I’ll answer those questions in this letter. No, I didn’t get the slippers nor the bed-room slippers in New York. Maybe I’ll try here. I see …
Cunard Line R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth Thanksgiving Day First day: It is time for me to go to bed but I thought that I should get a line started to you. After rushing around in New York for three days it was good to get on and get settled. We seemed to have so much to …
512 8th AvenueBrooklyn, New YorkNovember 21, 1950 Dear folks, I know that I should have written quite some time ago but I’ve been so busy that I just haven’t had the time and here it is the night before the day I go on board the ship. I was in Grand Rapids for two days, …