Kokomo, IN
Feb 21, 1931
Dear Elma,
Well Elma about that staying here in this town, I don’t know anything about that in fact, I aint going to worry about anything no more, but nevertheless just come ahead and I will have plenty room in my bed for you too. All you have to do is hop the train or bus and come to Kokomo and I will be at 620 Union Street the same as always just look it up and you can’t miss finding me there and plenty room to sleep in that big bed of mine. Elma I do wish you were here with me it would make things a whole lot nicer for both of us like that victrola record you have “you can do the cooking and I will chop the wood” so come ahead there is lots of things here in this town and if not enough here we will go to another town and so on aint that hot.
Elma I just received your dear letter this dinner as I came home, but you weren’t there to surprise me, so after I read that in the letter it made me feel blue, to think you could just as well be here to surprise me as I came home Elma why wasn’t you here to do that. I would feel a lot happier than this way all by myself and nobody that I even care to talk to that’s the way I feel a lot of times. Well Elma you want to be careful when you are driving the car it is all alright to let the insurance company fix the car but how are they going to fix you when you get tore up or probably knocked the insurance company can’t bring you back to life so be careful Elma and don’t get hurt anyway. Well I guess that P.D.Q. will be good to drink by the time you get this letter and they won’t be able to tell the difference who made the beer so I guess the beer will be alright don’t you think so Elma. I just wish I could be there and drink a few quarts of that beer Elma I had some homebrew the other night our supervisor told me to go with him, he just lives a block away from where I stay, so he gave me some to drink but it was not much good they put some kind of in it and that makes it taste funny, I don’t like that junk, I rather have yours any day and how.
Well Elma I think that I will have to take a bath soon otherwise it will be supper and I ain’t cleaned up yet the same as I come home from work first I ate dinner then I read your letter and then a letter from Mother then I read yours over and went and put $30.83 in the Citizens Nath. Bank here in Kokomo, and bought some more writing paper so I can write the blues away then I came home and sharpened my razor for it was pulling the hell out of my face, I guess you know how hell feels it burns something terrible that’s what it does so after I had my razor sharp I laid it down and read your letter the third time then I started to write the blues once more to send them to you , so that is what I am doing right now. It is 4:15 now and not much done not even this letter, but I guess I will get it done and get shaved and a bath before supper if I hurry a little, last night I went to church like everyone should during lent, so you know what I will be doing every Friday night during lent, that is 7:30 pm I will be in church praying for you and me for I do think we need it bad enough.
Today our storeroom was moved up right beside the new office building and that is only two blocks from where I stay so I won’t have far to go anymore only two blocks, o boy that is real life, but we won’t have school on Monday and Thursdays anymore, everybody is supposed to go to school on Tuesday nights at 7:00 o’clock back at the new building so that’s that. Elma I will have to close this letter and seal all the love and kisses that I can possibly dig up and put out so with an extra kiss I will close this and write and send you some more kisses tomorrow sometime so
Goodby Elma
Al X