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Mrs Harrison
Personal
July 9, 1930
Dear Irene:
This is just a note to thank you again for your as usual charming and gracious hospitality. You don’t know how much I enjoyed my brief stay with you and seeing your lovely home again and all of the Children.
As soon as Milton gets his financial affairs in shape again, which will undoubtedly be with the passing of time, I am sure that you will have one of the finest homes and families in the Country, as everything is so perfect about it.
Upon my return to the office I found a very nice letter from Milton congratulating me on my birth-day, which was very much appreciated, as was your remembrance of me. As I grow older, birth-days naturally are less exciting, but nevertheless one always likes to be remembered.
We had a lovely time down at the Shore. The bathing was marvelous, the fellowship even better, and had the good fortune to meet four of my Class-mates and their wives and three of Ginny’s class-mates at Westover. On top of that, Heinie and Dot Leh flew over from Allentown in their airplane, went bathing with us, had dinner and then flew back. As you know, Heinie is now a qualified pilot and flies his own plane, having had about 175 hours in the air to his credit. He came over in an hour and five minutes, whereas if he had driven in an automobile on the Fourth of July the traffic would have slowed him down to between three and a half and four hours, so he insists that the airplane is the only mode of travel now-days and I am not sure that he isn’t right.
Beechie had a little birth-day cake for me and Harriet presented me with a couple pairs of socks and Beechie and Charlie gave me a belt and I had wires from Mother, Mardy and Bob and the enclosed poem from Willard which is a wonder, and which I am sure you will enjoy reading. You might send it on to Ginny if you happen to write her, as I think she would be interested in Willard’s version of my home life.
It was certainly great to get back and see Mary Margaret again. She apparently missed her Mother more than any of us imagined, and after she had greeted her and the Nurse wanted to take her up stairs [sic], she just screamed and cried and didn’t want to leave her Mother again.
We are leaving on Friday to go up to the Island, but I am coming back Sunday, as I feel that I have got to stay pretty close to the plant again under present conditions.
Must close now and get at the large pile of letters ahead of me. With much love and again many thanks for your hospitality, I am your devoted Brother,
Pen
Mrs. Milton W. Harrison,
33 Highland Circle,
Bronxville, N.Y.
P.S. - Forgot to tell you about Olga Chase. When we passed through Philadelphia Sunday night we called Ellen and pretended that we knew all about Olga and asked her if she knew if a definite date had been set yet. She said no, she didn’t, but she thought it was to be sometime this Fall. Then later when she realized that she had let the cat out of the bag and that we were simply bluffing her, she said she didn’t know anything about anything, so there is no doubt in my mind but that Olga is engaged. The story around Akron is that she is engaged at the present time to Jack Avery, who wants to get married up North this Summer, but that she isn’t crazy about Jack and is crazy about a fellow from New Jersey that she met in Bermuda. However, she doesn’t want to throw Jack down unless she is sure of landing this fellow from New Jersey, so she is working the stalling game on Jack and trying to get the New Jersey fellow up to the line. This is only rumor, however, and your guess is as good as mine as to how it will all turn out. To date Aunt Grace has made no official announcement or pronouncement about anything.Transcriber
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