Mavuradonha 11:45 p.m. – 10th December Dear Everyone at home, As you see this is no hour for letter writing but it has been a hectic day and it is only now that I’ve found any time to write. I’ve had all of the final school reports to get ready to send into the government …
Mavuradonha 5th December Dear folks, When we finally got post this last time, I didn’t get a letter from you nor Ila. I thought for sure that I’d hear from you. Anyway you’ll be pleased to know and you can be sure I am, that your package has come. Also Ila’s. They seemed to have …
Mavuradonha Dear folks, We got the post the other day and there were two letters from you in it so that was nice. Yes, you really are getting your fall work done up quickly. I am glad to hear that you have had such good crops. I don’t suppose that the price of pork in …
October 29, 1952 Dear folks, We are having poor post service these days as the bus is broken down. I haven’t gotten post for quite some time nor have we been able to send it out so now we are going to see if we can get it sent tomorrow. Some days a truck or …
Mavuradonha October 19, 1952 Dear folks, I don’t know when I’ll get this posted. The bus has been broken down for two weeks or more and so we haven’t had any service. However last week Lois and Warren had to go to town for building supplies and when they got home a week ago Saturday …
Mavuradonha 7th October Dear folks, I’m awful sleepy but maybe I can get this written. I don’t know if the bus came tonight – no post has come anyway. I’ve had my radio on so I wouldn’t hear if it did. It seldom comes in. It just stops at the driveway and we are quite …
Mavuradonha 29th September Dear folks, Your letter of the 7th came Saturday. It was good to hear from you as it had been quite some time since I did. I suppose the same applies to you in regard to letters from me. I just seem to never settle down to letter writing, so now I …
Mavuradonha 16th September Dear folks, I’m back home – in fact I came last Friday and it is Tuesday night now. I wrote a letter to you just before I left town but when I went to mail it I couldn’t find it so I must have lost it down town that day, so I …
Salisbury 10th September, 1952 Dear folks, I’m sitting here in the park in Salisbury and I’m going to try and write a letter to you. It seems as if I just can’t get letters written these days. We returned from Bulawayo (where we stayed a week) this Monday and now on Friday I’m going back …
Victoria Falls 28th August, 1952 Dear folks, Here I am enjoying a few lovely days at the Falls again. We, Effie and I, left Salisbury Monday nite and arrived here Wednesday morning and we leave tomorrow again for Bulawayo where I’d like to spend next week. We are staying in the hotel here at the …