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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954
1942-05-04 Joseph Evans to John Evans Page 1
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3736 12th St., N.E. Washington, D.C. 4 May, 1942 Dear Dad - I regret having been unable to write to you at an earlier date (it seems incredible that his is already the fourth of May). However, I am working at the present time in both the daytime and the evening and on Saturdays and Sundays as well. I have agreed to type a dissertation for my former boss at the Catholic University, and it is this which occupies my evenings and week-ends. I would not have undertaken this task expect that he very much wanted me to do it, since I have worked with him on it previously - revising and editing it. On Saturday I took another civil service exam - the Junior Professional Assistant, and that means filing all the usual forms, including the Officer's Certificate of Residence, which is enclosed. I hope you don't mind having Mr. Crawford notarize it for me. If I did well on this examination, as I think I did, it will mean either a very sizable financial advancement in my present job, or else another and better-paying job. I hope that the former will be the case, since I am very happy in the office in which I am at present employed; I could scarcely have asked for more congenial work or more pleasant associates. The only difficulty is that I being paid only about half what the work is worth according to civil service scales. My
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3736 12th St., N.E. Washington, D.C. 4 May, 1942 Dear Dad - I regret having been unable to write to you at an earlier date (it seems incredible that his is already the fourth of May). However, I am working at the present time in both the daytime and the evening and on Saturdays and Sundays as well. I have agreed to type a dissertation for my former boss at the Catholic University, and it is this which occupies my evenings and week-ends. I would not have undertaken this task expect that he very much wanted me to do it, since I have worked with him on it previously - revising and editing it. On Saturday I took another civil service exam - the Junior Professional Assistant, and that means filing all the usual forms, including the Officer's Certificate of Residence, which is enclosed. I hope you don't mind having Mr. Crawford notarize it for me. If I did well on this examination, as I think I did, it will mean either a very sizable financial advancement in my present job, or else another and better-paying job. I hope that the former will be the case, since I am very happy in the office in which I am at present employed; I could scarcely have asked for more congenial work or more pleasant associates. The only difficulty is that I being paid only about half what the work is worth according to civil service scales. My
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