My Dearest Fanny:
Received your two dandy letter and as I have said they are as welcome as the flowers in May. I shure do enjoy your letters and read them over and over. I also got your picture and it sits right in the middle of my dresser and I have only kissed your picture more times than I have fingers. I also want to thank you very much for the picture Fanny dear. I showed Mrs. White the picture and I told her that this is my future wife to be and she did not believe me. But than she asked me if this is ture and I said if cuase i wish you could of seen her face. She nearly cried I real think she cried all afternoon because she said she was so blue.
It was a little after seven o clock till I was through to night and than had my dinner and come home and washed my head, took a shave and a bath. So I am nice and clean. So know I have my bath robe on while writing. I had plenty of work today. Killed 100 chickens in 2/3 hours this pm. Made sausage, trimmed out meat for Hamburg, skinned out cohrest ect.
Hides are 74 cent his calmers(?)
I kiss your picture each morning and evening before I go to bed. I wonder where you hide my face at. So you two bro tease the little girl. Well you don’t care what is true is true. We know what we are aiming for a good future so we can live and be happy and have our own home and everything in time if everything goes ok and the man above give me strength enough, we will have all of this.
Yes dear I wish you were here but you can be there and here at the same time but perhaps the time is near when we will be together forever. What do you say I must wonder when I will be able to come down to Kansas. I must stay here for awhile on assessment of me putting in my petition for the masonry. I expect to here with in one month and if it goes through I will not be able to write such long letter I will have to do some studying what do you say.
Yes dear that is my experience this time there never has been anyone I ever miss like you if cause this is my first time in love with the dear and sweetest I know so it is reutnred that we long for each other. I guess I must start to write on this side otherwise I will not have enough paper to write on. So you would give me a great big hug and a kiss if I were there you don’t know how sorry I am that I out there. I shure it would be more than one hug and kiss.
Fanny dear no my landlady will not tear your picture up. If she does that than look out for her. She is persicley hardmless. yes dear all I do is do my work at the store and think of my dearest girl in Kansas. I don’t see how you could leave me, Fanny dear you shure go at thing cute when you want to tell your dad and get him interested. But I will tell you why I want to get away from where I am as I have told you I am at this place eight years and if Icause I am getting to an age where I ought to be at something where there is a future in it and if I stay here where I am I am just working and making more for the boss and I have only a job and no future and I would be finish to stay here because I can advance much further you know wheen I was East with my folks. I told him in a letter I was not coming back and he wrote me a letter and you can read what he wrote to me. I wrote and told him I wanted to have half of the business or I would not come back and he is a queer man, you know, he is a Catholic and did not live up to his promise. So that is a big reason I want to move on. know dear do you blame me.
After reading this letter I am sending you. send it back to me. You knowI give him the stall that I have and my folks depends on me for some money if cause if my folks need any money why I shure send it to them. I would not refuse them that is each childs duty. You know the old say is if you are good to your mother you will be good to your wife.
Yes next week the 15th I get a dandiest check for fifty dollars the AT&T Co.
You know Kaiser told me he was going to do what is wright and before I come home I said to him about buying out half of the business and he said it was not enough in it for two. But I told hikm I would take this chance so you see in his letter he changed it around the only reason I come back is because I did not want to loof around and could not make up my mind if I wanted to go in the business with my bro so I come back just temporary.
Fanny dear I feel as though it my duty to tell you everything so you will know my reason for getting away I had a letter from my sister you can read some send back. I will stay here and get thing build up before I make a move, what do you say dear. My sister wrote my folks about you and I know you shure will like all of my people because I have shure nice folks and I know my people will be very much pleased with you. So no don’t of we get married sooner or later and we can afford it we will go east and see everybody. Won’t that be dandy. Shure enough I am doing plenty of thinking about our future. i know we will get along like two school children because there is love and penty of it and that goes far. Is not this true dear. Do you show my letter know I will ????. With love and kisses to my dearest girl in the land. Good night dear with love.
I will write Sunday and be good and I will be a good boy for my sweetie.
