Lorenzo Swensen (1887-1955) and Beatrice Eloise Wride (1893-1979)

Incoming Correspondence, 1941

Paul to Folks, 1941 Dec 29

Bath, New York
Dec. 29, 1941

 

Happy New Year,

You have probably read most of the news by now so this might not be so long. I was certainly glad to hear all about your very interesting day. It sounds like real fun. By the sound of all of your letters it sounded like Santa had to go back after another load as soon as he left our place. You certainly all did O.K.

Just what was wrong with everyone. It is a disgrace to sleep until seven on Christmas, of course it was 10:30 when we got up but then there wasn’t much to get up for. I’ll bet everyone else in the neighborhood were up and had all of their things worn out before you even found out what was left, or course I suppose Christmas is losing some of the meaning it used to around there.

We have had some good skating weather for a day or two and me without some skates. I will have me some soon however. I haven’t anything to wear so I could us the whole suit—jacket, hood, cap, pants, and those mitts, if you can find them.

We went to the Presbyterian church yesterday. It was a fine service. We met one of our friends and she invited us out to dinner. She said that she was lonely so she asked us. When we got there she already had some guests so we had a good time. We really got in some tracting. The man has some funny ideas so I got him down in a corner and really poured it on. He had to agree with most of the things I said or contradict some of his own statements. He took it all right because he invited us to come down to Elmira to see them sometime. We had a dinner of left-overs but it was really fine. Turkey potatoes, gravy, dressing, and all the trimmings. we were there for about 4 hours so it was a nice day. It is certainly funny how easy it is at times to make contacts when there doesn’t even seem to be a chance.

I’ll quit now and write the kids.

Love

Paul