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Nett-Helen Letters

Layton White to Blanche (Bailey) Peterie - Nov. 17, 1917

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Wichita Kans
Nov 17= 17

My Dear Neice

 

I will endeavor to write you a small letter tonight. have just come from supper. & it is now 6 oclock. Well I expect you will wonder what I had for supper so I will try to tell you. Well I had Bread and butter and fried potatoes and 4 big weenies and a dish of fruit and grat big cookey & a glass of milk. Now don't you think that was enough! at any rate it was all I wanted for 15 cts. But I will not eat much breakfast for I am invited out tomorrow to a chicken dinner Joe Hill said that he wanted me to be sure & come down to his plac & we would eat chicken & I told him I would sure be thare. Wait a minut I will turn off the gass a little for it is getting too hot in here. now the gass is shut off some & I have got my coat off. Well say thare was one of the nisest girls waited on the table that I ate at tonight & I am going to try to git too the same table in the morning when I go to Breakfast & I told her that I was asked out to a chicken dinner tomorrow & she said then I supos I won't get to see you tomorrow. say now dident that sound sweet. I thot it did. I haf a notion to tell her if it was going to disappoint her too much that I wouldent go out to dinner. But she said just think of her while I was eating dinner & of corse I will but the douse of it is I don't know whether she is a maride woman or not but must finde out ha ha. She is about Maudes age & she will look at me and smile & if I see any other fellow making love too her I will brake a chair over his head & I expect I had better look a little out or som fellow may crack my old head. then I would be in a duce of a shap wouldent I. so I guess I had better go slow.

Well I got a letter from Mabel today. I sent her a letter last Sunday. it came back marked unknown & in her letter today she was getting uneasy about me for she was afraid I was sick & couldnent write. so I sat right down & ans it & told her that I am all right. She said that she hadent had a letter from you for a coons age & wondered why you dident write. she seemed to be getting along all O.K. Well Blanche I quit my old Spivey Dr as he wasent doing me one bit of good. so you see I am about the same as I was when I came up here. I am now taking Chiropacting. took one treatment Thursday & one today & say I am a little bit sore. Well did Carters com I dident get your letter until Monday Noon. you see we don't get any mail Sundays. but I hapend to Be at the train Tues mrn but dident see anything of them. I got a short letter from Lester today but he dident say whether it had rained any down thare or not. We had a little rain here last night & it seemed to come from the West. No I don't get lonsome up here but I get homesick to see all of you. Well now I am so sleepy I can hardly hold my eyes open so will go to bed. tell the girls I will write to them some of these days. Was glad to get thare letters. So good night. Write when you can.


Lots of love to all


Late

[Return address on the envelope:]

154 ½ (or 194 ½) N. Emporia Ave,

Wichita

 

[Editor's note: This is the last letter in the series. Layton White died a week after he wrote this letter, on Nov. 24, 1917 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.]

 


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