Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family

Ruth C. Jackson to Harriet Anna Yancey, March 17, 1950.

Gifts and money | Health, illness and death | Seasons and the weather

Ruth Jackson apologizes to Harriet Yancey for being so delinquent in writing. She discusses her health, her mother's recent birthday, and other news.

Ruth

To: Mrs. Harriett Yancey
Esmont, Va.
From: R.C. Jackson
1156 Taylor
Detroit 2, Mich.
Postscript: Detroit 2, MICH
MAR 21, 1950
8-30 PM

March 17, 1950.

Dear Mrs. Yancey,

I hope the shock of receiving a letter from me wont prove too much for you. I am really very much ashamed of myself for having been so negligent about writing. Please do not think it is because I haven't thought of you, -its just the bad habit of putting things off,- so I hope you'll be very generous and forgive me- I promise you that I shall make a conscientious effort to do better.

I do hope that you are well and happy, - and that every thing is running smoothly for you.- Every one is doing fairly well on this

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end except Joy and me. I haven't been feeling up to par.- The doctor says I have a bad kidney and wants me to be hospitalized for a while but I hate the thought- Joy has an ulcer in the large intestine leading from the stomach.- Her nerves have been all jittery since that unfortunate marriage, and I suppose she's worried more than we thought. At any rate she is going to take some course of treatment next month that we hope will clear it up.

Mother is well, I suppose she writes you regularly doesn't she? Emella had a nice luncheon for her on her birthday and I think she invited eight ladies.- They had a grand time. Mother received loads of cards and

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some very lovely gifts.- I told her I thought she was well blessed to have so many friends and to have reached the age she has and enjoying comparatively good health.

Well spring is supposed to be almost here.- I shant be sorry because it's been a long winter and I really am worn out with running up and down tending the furnace.

I received a letter from Mollie some time ago and she was quite upset because the house in which she lives has been sold and the people who bought it want her apartment for their daughter. She hasn't been able to find any thing where she could afford to pay the rent they're charging now, -so the last I heard she was thinking of

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shipping her things south to her mother, and she really doesn't want to have to do that.

Please remember me to May and Roger and their families when you write them. I shant ask you to write soon as that would be an imposition after having delayed so long. But do write when you can. Lots of love from us all.

Ruth

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Source copy consulted: Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family (MSS 11599), Alderman Library, University of Virginia

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