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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-May 1942
1942-05-28: Page 01
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Thursday May 28, 1942 (Pensacola, Fla) Dear Grandma, I am writing this out at squadron using my stationery box for a table, so if it is unusually illegible you will understand why. Under the most propitious (sp) circumstances my hand is difficult to decode, but I fear these pages may look like a study in hieroglyphics (sp) before I finish (I'm not so confident of my spelling without my dictionary for reference). I carry on a desultory correspondence with a girl by the name of Celia Peairs - she among others, that is!?! Celia, at present, is working on her thesis at Chicago U., dealing with old age pensions, aid to dependent children, etc. A couple of weeks ago she wrote that in her research she had run across the inaugural address of Geo. W. Clarke in 1913. She thought it excellent, and asked if he weren't my grandfather, and had I read it. I was ashamed that I hadn't. Therefore, she forwarded me a copy in booklet form from the U. library, saying that by all means I should make myself acquainted with it. It happened that it arrived when Bob Hobbs was in
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Thursday May 28, 1942 (Pensacola, Fla) Dear Grandma, I am writing this out at squadron using my stationery box for a table, so if it is unusually illegible you will understand why. Under the most propitious (sp) circumstances my hand is difficult to decode, but I fear these pages may look like a study in hieroglyphics (sp) before I finish (I'm not so confident of my spelling without my dictionary for reference). I carry on a desultory correspondence with a girl by the name of Celia Peairs - she among others, that is!?! Celia, at present, is working on her thesis at Chicago U., dealing with old age pensions, aid to dependent children, etc. A couple of weeks ago she wrote that in her research she had run across the inaugural address of Geo. W. Clarke in 1913. She thought it excellent, and asked if he weren't my grandfather, and had I read it. I was ashamed that I hadn't. Therefore, she forwarded me a copy in booklet form from the U. library, saying that by all means I should make myself acquainted with it. It happened that it arrived when Bob Hobbs was in
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