Letter to Mary Maddux Greenley
Archival materials -- Letter;Envelope
Identifier:
2023.42.81Description
a. Letter on lined loose-leaf paper, front only. Written in pencil. Dated August 4, 1923. Greystone, CO. Letter to Mary Maddux Greenley (Optimo, NM) from Ralph Maddux (Greystone, CO)."Dear Mary it seems I must write or you never will I came home the 1 of June but have been working most all of the daylight and putting off too many things till tomorrow I took 3 hours away last summer and could not find them when I was ready to come home and all the fellows that had cars wanted".
b. Letter on lined loose-leaf paper, front only. Written in pencil.
"$35.00 to bring me and my bed home so I went to town and got a Ford of my own I sure got lots of good running out of it so far it has cost me $47.20 for 3160 mile and lots of it on a road too rocky for a wagon I heard of my horses a few days ago I am fixing 30 acres for fall grain I want to plant it and go to the oil field for the winter and"
c. Letter on lined loose-leaf paper, front only. Written in pencil.
"hope this will be the last time I will have to go out and work for wages I am getting so I hate it worse all the time it is so hot now that the temptation to stay in the shade is awful getting dark now so will quit good bye from Ralph"
d. Envelope made from white paper. Postmarked Greystone, CO, August 8, 1923, pm. Sent to "Mrs. A. R. Greenley (Mary Maddux), Optimo, New Mex.". Sent from "Ralph Maddux Greystone Colo. Moffat Co.". On the other side of the envelope is math equations written in pencil.
Ralph Maddux is brother of Mary Maddux Greenley
Content Date:
August 4 1923
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