4-5-1939 Orville to Miss Evelyn B Carter

4-5-1939 Orville to Miss Evelyn B Carter

Envelope:

Miss Evelyn B. Carter

Box 326

Marietta, Ga.

Postmark: 4-5-1939 Cedartown, GA.

Cedartown, Ga.

Tuesday night.

My dearest Evelyn,

It was sweet of you to call last night and I was terribly sorry to hear that your mother has been seriously ill. I’m hoping with all my might that she has greatly improved and will be able to come down the latter part of the week. However, I doubt her taking so long a trip so soon after her illness.

Evelyn please don’t keep reminding me that I may change my mind about everything. I know that. You seem to think that I’m considering such a thing. Well, I’m not. You have the same privilege too, you know, but please don’t change your mind about me, keep loving me, continue to trust and have faith and confidence in me and I’ll swear to do my best to be the person that you would have me be. I couldn’t stop loving you because of something you once did when you are a thousand times better than I or anyone else that I have ever known. Don’t regret it, I’m not, for if it had not happened we would have never met. You owe no one apologies, you have nothing to be ashamed of, you made a mistake, admitted it and did something about it. You kept right on, holding your chin up, and accomplished something. You have what we called in football as guts. (Please forgive my using that word)

Yes I really did hobo part of the way home Sunday night, Willie had a puncture in Rockmart and the spare was also flat, heard a train coming and ran about a mile and caught it just as it was leaving town. It was fun riding like a king on top of a car loaded with sand through a beautiful night thinking of what a lucky person I am.

We had a first aid meeting tonight, thank goodness that’s over for this week. Things are quiet at the office.

Won’t Thursday ever get here, I’m so lonesome – I love you, really I do and I’m serious, not cereal.

Love

Orville