Name/Title
Letters to Barbara MaxwellEntry/Object ID
2021.2.585Scope and Content
A four page letter, handwritten on both sides from Marilyn Maxwell, St. Joseph, Mo. to Miss Barbara Ann Maxwell, Columbia, Missouri, dated and postmarked March 22nd, 1953, Sunday. It is on white stationary inside a light pink envelope with a 3¢ stamp.The return address is written on the back flap and secured with two 1953 Easter Seals. Above the receivers information is written "Peacemakers".Context
Querida hermana,
It rained today! . . . . . . We had the car in the garage just before the rain came. . . . . Papa . . . had (his) washed this afternoon. . . . don't know whether they left it in or out.
I have been working on A.A.U.N. reports all afternoon. . . . ! . . . Ethel Shrout . . . , will take over in June.
John was perfectly elegant and eloquent, this morning! He started out talking about the atom bomb and its terrible implications, . . . . . . . "Harsh facts in a harsher world of horrible possibilities!"
If a peacemaker appeared in the world, . . . ". . . ", he would be hailed not as a hero, but as a Son of God. . . . are we willing to pay the price of peace? . . . Honestly?
"There is a great deal of difference between an peacemaker and a peacekeeper. . . . . . . .A peacemaker must have the courage to stand up for what is right when everyone else is for the wrong. . . . . he is usually hated by the very factions between whom he is trying to make peace. . . . . Wasn't that what happened to Trygve Lie . . . . . . . ?
The peacemakers . . . life is like a wartime convoys' . . . three requirements . . . . . First, it must be sound itself; second, it must obey the commander's orders and maneuver with the convoy, . . third, it must have a destination. . . . . if we are out of sorts inside, then we are out of sorts outside.
The orders we must obey are the laws if God. . . . all men must obey them, (and) . . . want peace. We must all seek a common goal, or destination, the way of God.
And we must go forward; . . . . Peacemakers set the pace of living.
John hit the Communist probers this morning. . . . it is the business of each congregation to know what kind of minister they have, and if they don't like him to get rid of him. . . . those men in our government are just men, not saints, and capable of making mistakes that are sins. "God forbid . . . we . . . believe in a man who says that the powers of these United States of America lies in government officials in Washington!"
. . . . He really got emphatic; you could hear a pin drop. . .
Tonight I go to the Brock's for Young Adults' Meeting. The next two weeks are really full of church activities, . . . . We go to Oregon next Sunday evening to d the "Seven Last Words.". . . .
The Cherubs are s'posed to sing in church both Easter and Palm Sunday. . . .
We got your first Landmark book, The Pony Express! . . . . It's real cute.
Mary Ann talked to Mr. Coleman . . ; . . . there would be one vavancy in Eng & Soc. Sci. . . . . there were forty applicants. . . . , she was rather discouraged.
Mother just talked tom you on the phone . . . ; take good care of yourself.
I went downtown yesterday for a short while. . . . I got Mama a new lipstick; . . . .
This will be a real fat letter; . . . put mine & Mama's together.
I saw "Jeopardy" last night - . . with Mary Ann, I really liked it. . . . I haven't seen a movie for ages. . . . . "Androcles & the Lion" is at Electric now; I'd like to see it . . .
Got to stop - it's after 6 o'clock.
Lots of love.
P.S. I was afraid your arith. teacher would answer as she did!Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
LetterNomenclature Primary Object Term
CorrespondenceNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
