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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, 1945
1945-08-10 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 1
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817-19 St. S.E. Cedar Rapids, Iowa August 10, 1945 Dearest, This morning I got up, feeling most uneasy. I turned in the morning radio programs and very soon the report of the Jap broadcast they they would surrender if they could keep the Emperor was made. I've listened as much of the time as I could, since then. It is now ten o'clock and there is nothing official about the offers except that Russia has heard it directly. The cleaning woman came today and tuned up the vaacum sweeper. I came to the office and the office girl was gushing about everything until I could not stand that. So I went over to Mrs. Sloan's office & listened in on Mr. Deamer's radio. Then I came back to keep a ten o'clock appointment. The girl hasn't arrived yet to keep it, and I would not be too surprised if she didn't come. I'm not sure I'll have my mind strictly on the business enough to write her a good social history. So however the appointment goes, I won't be too concerned. I've heard now the reason Lunds cut out the big elm in front of their house was because the roots filled the sewer and the basement wall was being broken. That makes it a more necessary job than for the reason Mrs Lund told me last spring of "too much shade on the house." I thought she must just be trying to
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817-19 St. S.E. Cedar Rapids, Iowa August 10, 1945 Dearest, This morning I got up, feeling most uneasy. I turned in the morning radio programs and very soon the report of the Jap broadcast they they would surrender if they could keep the Emperor was made. I've listened as much of the time as I could, since then. It is now ten o'clock and there is nothing official about the offers except that Russia has heard it directly. The cleaning woman came today and tuned up the vaacum sweeper. I came to the office and the office girl was gushing about everything until I could not stand that. So I went over to Mrs. Sloan's office & listened in on Mr. Deamer's radio. Then I came back to keep a ten o'clock appointment. The girl hasn't arrived yet to keep it, and I would not be too surprised if she didn't come. I'm not sure I'll have my mind strictly on the business enough to write her a good social history. So however the appointment goes, I won't be too concerned. I've heard now the reason Lunds cut out the big elm in front of their house was because the roots filled the sewer and the basement wall was being broken. That makes it a more necessary job than for the reason Mrs Lund told me last spring of "too much shade on the house." I thought she must just be trying to
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