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John N. Calhoun family letters, February 1941-April 1945
1943-01-25 Page 1
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Burlington, Ia Jan. 25, 1943 Mon. nite 10 bells My Dearest - This has certainly been a beastly cold day. It never warmed up a bit all day long. It was 10 below last nite and is supposed to go to 15 below tonight. Is it ever taking the coal to heat the house? I sent a check for the two times we bought coal & it come to $52.30. That really took the old bank acct. down. With the $50.00 I put in for you, makes $178.26. So you can see why I feel like I have to continue to work. I have been enjoying my work at home with the children, what time I have had. I stayed at home until 1:30 today. It was a very slow day at the shop. I only took in $1.65. It hardly paid me to go down. I wanted to go down and get your letter too. I rec'd two from you today. I am glad you wrote them about the apartment. That was a nice letter you wrote then & even if they don't pay any attention to the letter they will soon know how we feel about it anyway. I am enclosing the kids report cards for you to see. I was pretty proud of them you can look at them & send them back. No maid yet. I guess it is just hopeless. I am going to get along the best way I can for a while until I know what to do. Guess I will go ahead & rent the back room to a man. Might as well get the money out of it, for a while.
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Burlington, Ia Jan. 25, 1943 Mon. nite 10 bells My Dearest - This has certainly been a beastly cold day. It never warmed up a bit all day long. It was 10 below last nite and is supposed to go to 15 below tonight. Is it ever taking the coal to heat the house? I sent a check for the two times we bought coal & it come to $52.30. That really took the old bank acct. down. With the $50.00 I put in for you, makes $178.26. So you can see why I feel like I have to continue to work. I have been enjoying my work at home with the children, what time I have had. I stayed at home until 1:30 today. It was a very slow day at the shop. I only took in $1.65. It hardly paid me to go down. I wanted to go down and get your letter too. I rec'd two from you today. I am glad you wrote them about the apartment. That was a nice letter you wrote then & even if they don't pay any attention to the letter they will soon know how we feel about it anyway. I am enclosing the kids report cards for you to see. I was pretty proud of them you can look at them & send them back. No maid yet. I guess it is just hopeless. I am going to get along the best way I can for a while until I know what to do. Guess I will go ahead & rent the back room to a man. Might as well get the money out of it, for a while.
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