Letter to Mary Maddux Greenley
Archival materials -- Letter;Envelope
Identifier:
2023.42.79Description
a. Letter on very thin white unlined stationery paper, front and back. Written in black ink. Dated November 29, 1923. Montrose, CO. Letter to Mary Maddux Greenley (Casper, WY) from Leona Maddux (Montrose, CO)."Dear Sis, How surprised we were to hear from you again we had almost began to think you had left the country or had forgotten us. Dick wrote you one letter a short time after we were married, but it was returned, so you can imagine how worried he was getting about you. So please after this just write us a note to let you know how you are and where you are at, and we will try and promise to do the same. Altho I know we are all careless and neglect writing. We have been laying around Montrose for the last few days, trying to get lined out our work, but we know but very little more then we did before. I have been doing nothing for the last three weeks until I am nearly crazy. If I had to lay around here another three weeks I would be a fit subject for Pueblo. I was so sorry to hear of you loosing your baby but a person really has to expect things like that in life. Of course no one knows what it really means, but the mother, even if it probably was for the best.".
b. Letter on very thin white unlined stationery paper, front and back. Written in black ink.
"Dick said for me to tell you that my cooking hasn't killed him off yet, and he is gaining in weight, but we haven't keep house for so long is probably the reason- really you can't imagine how glad I will be when we get to ourselves again. We are going over to Placerville tomorrow to get another car, we are going to let the other car go back and get a Lexenglow. Well I simply can't think of anything to write, and guess the trouble is I can't think. O yes, Joe Caddy and Jessie Smith were married a school"
c. Letter on very thin white unlined stationery paper, front and back. Written in black ink.
"go. I haven't been around Coloro for quite awhile so don't know much news from there. Please write soon. With love Leona. Dear Sister as Leona is ans. your letter fast haste I will finish it up with a short tale I suppose she has told you almost every thing I would like to. I saw Grand Pa I had not thought of them in such a long time but your letter seems to bring them back to me I would like very much to come over and see them if we were not so hard up we probably would I suppose you folks are going to make your home in Casper now that you have tonight a home there I do not know anything about the place but anywhere a person can make a living and be blessed with good health is a good place to be we both feel good and are happy so we have nothing to kick about altho some times we are hard up for money we were up in the hills this summer I saved for Herman Darling and I guess we will go back for about six week and load logs on trucks they are going to haul them to Montrose and saw them here when they start here we will live in Montrose will close for this time with love from your brother."
d. Envelope made from white paper. Postmarked Montrose, CO, December 11, 1923, 5pm. Sent to Mrs. A. R. Greenley (Mary Maddux), 935 St. Mary's Street, Casper, Wyo. In the top left corner in blue ink is written "Leona" and in black ink "ans".
Leona Maddux was sister-in-law to Mary Maddux Greenley. She was married to Laurence Maddux.