SentLetters

“… something awfully embarrassing happened on the train. Just as I stepped on, both garters on my right leg unsnapped and I clutched my knee with one hand. People must have thought i was hunched back or I had to ‘do my duty’ because i was hobbling down the aisle in a very peculiar manner.”

I find it a little humorous that she was playing “Mahj” (Mahjong) until 2:00 and lost the significant amount of13 cents. That amount now would probably be equivalent to dollars. At first it seems silly because one usually compares it to the current rate of exchange without considering that this letter is somewhere in the range of 60-80 years old.

I really liked this commentary on parents (Don’t we all feel this way at some point?):

“No reasonable, logical, simple explanation on my part will convice them that they are wrong, pig-headed, stubborn, and generally dumb…”

Then in a moment of understanding and seeming forgiveness, she finishes the letter with:

” - however I feel that time will smooth it over.”

I know that it is hard to see in the scan, but there are two lip drawings on the page after Alice signs the letter. One is for Norma, and the other for Ella. This leads me to believe that Norma and Ella are sisters, or at the very least good friends.

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From Wikipedia:

“… the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, which was considered at the time to be one of the world’s largest hotels. (The hotel was later the Deshler Hilton and then later still demolished and replaced with a parking lot which was replaced in turn by One Columbus Center).”

The letter claims that the Deshler-Wallik Hotel had 1000 rooms and 1000 baths, and was managed by Biltmore Hotel our of Providence Rhode Island

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Note: I posted this to wikipedia, and I even commented and followed their rules to instantiate importance. They deleted the thing anyway. If you get a chance, please go and put the article back up.

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 In my research about the previous letter, I did a quick google search and a quick wikipedia search for the Drexler Coal Company. Neither of which turned up anything of any consequence. So I posted a new wikipedia article for Drexler Coal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler_Coal_Company

If you have any information about this company please make sure to add it to the wikipedia article. As soon as I created the one linked to above, the bots that manage the site attempted to have it auto-deleted because they thought it was an effort at spamming wikipedia.

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