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Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967 to Leonard Eugene Graeff

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09611.228.01 Author/Creator: Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967 Place Written: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: January 19, 1944 Pagination: 6 p. : envelope Height: 22.6 cm, Width: 14.1 cm Order a Copy

One letter from Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated January 19, 1944. Susan writes leonard that it has been a month since she was last able to write him. She describes the symptoms she has been feeling as well as the treatments the doctor has been giving her. She is feeling better and her sinuses are feeling less clogged. She is so grateful towards Malinda for writing to him and keeping them both updated on everything. She mentions that Raymond wrote about the car battery. Also Raymond has been working about the same as normally, he leaves at seven in the morning and gets home around twelve or one oclock. She has no update on the income tax papers he received. Susan sent a clipping of Willam Hogentoge's obituary as it was easier then her writing about it. She asks if Leonard helped to build the boat in the clipping he sent (GLC09611.226.03) and thinks the Ross hall looks nice. She is also sending a letter from Bethlehem steel that came in the mail for him.

Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016
Graeff, Raymond James, 1889-1963
Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967
Hogentogle, Betty June, fl. 1943
Hogentogle, William, 1906-1943
Hogentogle, Lillian C., fl. 1944
Graeff, Malinda, fl. 1943-1945

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