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Envelope:

West Mahoning St. Punxsutawney, Pa.

Mr Leroy E McGregor

Fort Snelling. St Paul minn

Co. F 28 Inf

Letter:

West Mahoning St. Punxsutawney, Pa.

Dear Leroy E

I received your letter card today and many thanks for it I took likeing to the girl - It was on the postal card. ha ha

Hello kid and how are you by this time there was a fair in old Punxsutawney the 10-14 of this mo you mist it all I have a fine time this last two weeks I was a washington visitnng my Aunt and had a fine time

I expect to go soon to stay.

Leroy your father went back to new york state have you heard from him. I would like to now his address he wanted me to go a long but mother wount leave me.

Leroy I will explain all why I didnt write to you for so long Leroy I wont tell you who told me all of this but their a couple person told me it.

Leroy this party told me you was goying with a cook in the hotel and you said you didnt give a dam where I was and that you was goying to bring her hom and they told me you was goying to get married to her and so if that is the case what is the youse of writing to me if a ???????? would ????? at a give why what is the youse writing to him I believe it becuase every time I see this party they ask me if you are still writing to me Leroy if you are married I want you to tell me Leroy I love you just the same as always did but your Father is out there and maybe I will never see you again so if you dont come back to Punxsutawney when your time is over what is the youse of winning

Leroy I want you to sure to tell me what you was goying to tell me mind Leroy If you arnt comming back to Punxy to see me why dont write I will never live in this place now Leroy dont let this make you mad I am goying to send you the picture of a fella in Cleveland Ohio or to Pittsburg who wants to marry me and mother said I could do what I want to he is a ????? fellow so if you dont like my look all right I have never saw this fellow only wrote to him now if you think more of that girl that you do of me why get her and go Leroy be sure and tell me what you were goying to mind I am not mad only telling you I didnt write to that fellow you till I I have what you said about me you didnt give a dam just think that mind I am a sweet girlie and can get lots of fellow I would just love to go to go away from here to live there is a fellow writing to me from Pittsburg I would wrote to these fellow if ou had ????? that about me good ????

heve lots more to tell you

Leroy this is poor writing and I cant help it it I am cross and cant write if you can read it very all right

Viola Paintere

Notes:

• This is a kind of Dear John letter. Except that she is giving the guy an out. She is telling Leroy that if he is willing to come back to her she won’t run off with a guy in Pittsburg who she has been writing to. I wish I had the continuation of this conversation, I would love to know what happened between these two, and to find out who they ended up marrying.
• Also, notice that when she writes the words going and use, she uses the words “goying” and “youse”. Is this teh education system? Is this just her phonetically trying to spell the words? Or is it just that she is very ‘cross and cant write if you can
  read it very all right”
• Are the smudges on the letter her tears hitting the ink, or is it just that she rubbed her hand in the ink before it was dry?

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Capt. S. Field Dallam.

War Department

Post Paymaster’s Office, U.S. Army

Washington, D.C.

Official Business.

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If not delivered return in 10 days

Levi J. McGregor

603 Main st.

Punxatawney, PA

Letter:

Fort Snelling, Minn.,

January 15, 1912.

Dear Friend Mr. McGregor:

I have just received your very welcome letter and was certainly glad to hear from you and to hear that you were well also as the both of us boys are.

We have been having several cold days here and have not been out of hte building hardley only on the necessary duties that we have to perform, it has been as low as 41′ below zero if I remember right, that is about as cold as I ever saw it get but we did not feel the cold as much I don’t think as when it was but about ten below zero for as it gets colder it seems to get dryer and as it get warmer it seems to get damper so we feel it more that is the only way I have of reasoning it out, it was about 20′ below one day and I went out for a walk in the afternoon and the sun was shining and I did not think that it was very cold and before I knew it my ears were frozen stiff and they did not feel cold in the least, and as far as LeRoy and myself freezing, there is no danger whatever for there are too many warm places in this city for us to freeze, although I am not thoroughly acquainted with St. Paul and Minneapolis I can go most any place in either city and LeRoy is learning the place as quick as could be expected although he don’t ever venture down to Minneapolis alone, for the streets run in to each other so much that if you do not look out one would be lost for fair.

About that banking, I will start next month and you need not send me the book but wait untill I send for it for the money will not be sent by me but by the Chief Paymaster from Washington D.C. and possilby you willhave to go to the Post Office and sign a receipt from him before you can get the check, I do not know exactly how they do do that business but all I want is a few blank checks or a check book so if I did want some of that money I could get without sending to you or the Bank for the blank check, but it is not necessary to send them untill after I get the money in the bank, I will send you an allotment application made out so that you can see how we do it and that is all that is done in this office, the War Department does the rest of it them selves, there will be one of these made out and sent to the Chief Pay master just like this is made out.

I was going to ask you about in one of my previous letters did you ever hear of a man by the name of George Baxter, in Punxsutawney? this is my father he used to work in or round that place but that was several years ago and I have often heard him speak of that place, I wrote to him and was mentioning LeRoys name and the place he lived and he ask me to ask LeRoy if he knew several people that he mentioned but I have destroyed the letter and dont remember the names now to save me but I will ask him sometime again when I write to him.

Well I will ave to close for this time wishing you a long happy life from your ever well wishing friend

Leon G. Baxter,

Corporal Company “F” 28th U.S. Infantry.

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