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Eve Drewelowe travel correspondence, 1928-1929
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March 19, 1929. Dearest Mother, Well here we are sailing upon the sea again. And this time we seem to have chosen a more opportune time. The ocean is smooth and the sun so warm and bright. Even the forecast for the next day indicates that the delightful weather will continue. And how glad we shall be, especially for Van who never will be able to adjust himself to the sea. To make matters worse, we are travelling second class. Our cabin, which is plenty commodious with four baths, is somewhere near the tail end of the "Amazon" underneath the propellers. These boats around these out of the way places are frightfully expensive and we don't get a thing for our money (what we pay should provide us with luxuries but it doesn't). But anyway our ocean voyages are almost ended and no matter how little money we have left after Europe, our passage across the Atlantic is provided for. I wrote to Fritz last week- but a letter to someone every week doesn't make the rounds of the family very quickly. I try to keep in touch with all of you and even so I imagine you all get more letters from me than I receive from you. A two months old letter from John is the last one that had come to us - the others are
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March 19, 1929. Dearest Mother, Well here we are sailing upon the sea again. And this time we seem to have chosen a more opportune time. The ocean is smooth and the sun so warm and bright. Even the forecast for the next day indicates that the delightful weather will continue. And how glad we shall be, especially for Van who never will be able to adjust himself to the sea. To make matters worse, we are travelling second class. Our cabin, which is plenty commodious with four baths, is somewhere near the tail end of the "Amazon" underneath the propellers. These boats around these out of the way places are frightfully expensive and we don't get a thing for our money (what we pay should provide us with luxuries but it doesn't). But anyway our ocean voyages are almost ended and no matter how little money we have left after Europe, our passage across the Atlantic is provided for. I wrote to Fritz last week- but a letter to someone every week doesn't make the rounds of the family very quickly. I try to keep in touch with all of you and even so I imagine you all get more letters from me than I receive from you. A two months old letter from John is the last one that had come to us - the others are
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