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Letter, From Mamma and Rina to Emma.Entry/Object ID
2020.1.251Scope and Content
Letter written August 2nd, 1918 to Emma From Mamma and Rina. Letter is 6 pages long and transcribed. Some words are eligible and it is difficult to tell in what order the pages go.
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Ridgefield, Wash Aug 2 1918. Dear Emma & Aunty & Children. Just received your letter this ufae really glad to hear from you & that you are all well. Mamma is here today wr rnt aut a tia waeharg. Mamma came home from Spokane July 6th. Flora did not come with her. She did __ __ able. She got along real well that it will take her a first to get clrang.
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Mamma said she really should have stayed longer than she did but she did not feel like she could. The folks down home are getting along fine. Lerlir has been working at the Ship Yard for weeks. Emma's father is working there too. Walter & Blanche were driven to a friends Birthday. They are getting along fine. The weather has been warm & dry. Geo has been busy cutting grain. Paul the fry we had when
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you were here was called be the draft to his had to be brave e greet a few days after you left we did hate to see him go, so then we did not get to go to bearthe as we intended to. Dora went __ are the __. But we did go to Camp Lewis two weeks ago. We were gone three days. Had a great time, __ folks I don't know when we can come
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up we have and ma now & of is so hard for me to __, but per nake we can come some time get us talking of getting another man if we can. I suppose I will be busy with the front. I can wed bane lact peek then we had a Red craze drings at the school house, the children and I took part in the program we rode a grill & ice cream and cake & clare $76.50 that as pretty
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Well I will close for this time. After you can all com visit me again. With love and best wishes to awine, yourself & children, From Mamma & Rina. Sad Pacafia got hurt last Saturday he climbed up to feed the horses & fell backwards, hurt hip shoulder and head, but he feels pretty good now again. he says you cant kill a Railer.
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No I did not get no letter for you, there was nothing come. Say Emma dident you get the card I sent you thanking you for the package of under ware you sent me. Got it O.K. and Many Thanks.
Group of documents found in a box that belonged to Captain Charles Nelson and Family.Lexicon
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