Gene to Evelyn (circa 1938-1939)

Gene to Evelyn (circa 1938-1939)

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Friday nite

Dearest Evelyn

You probably will be surprised to be getting this from me when just having fun with you tonite.

I don’t know if I will get in writing my thoughts or not. I will at best some am sure. Evelyn this is not to try to build up my rating to your equivalent, I realize that & see some of the different things & ways we differ. I don’t think you openly boast the fact but you realize the fact there’s some differences in our education, likes & dislikes. At time I have felt lost at some things which have come up that you could handle with ease & so understanding.

Evelyn, I think you are the most understanding person I have ever known & that you understand me more than any other person but at times you don’t see me at all.

Evelyn, the talk we had over at Caloun has derated [sic] me more than any one thing I could mention, I have come to earth so to speak. It hurt me to think I was not your equal as a person & you did not think along as I said & since thinking the matter over can see your side more fully. You say we will continue to go on & to be friends, that is going to be about the hardest thing I have tried to do, you have been & meant more to me than any one else, I have felt at times you were a part of me & to be around you was all I could ask for, you have a wonderful personality & disposition, you’re sweet, easy-going, good natured, wear your clothes nice, in fact nice company in every way one could mention, you have some little bad habits, more that would hurt you as being the sweet person you are – so what more could any one ask in a person.

Evelyn the hours we spent together in C’ville were minutes to me I enjoyed everyon one of them, so will you please understand to accept my thanks for every moment I have spent with you, for each & every kind word you have spoken the pleasant sweet smile, the friendly greeting – it was happiness & entertainment to me & I shall never forget them, so thanks a million for everything.

This reads as if I do not ever intend to see you again, well not that its just that I see things different & will try to adjust myself.

Tonite I enjoyed every minute we were together, this was to much spay [sic] between us. I would loved to have kissed you goodnite, on any time that we were together, I just couldn’t. You seem to want to bridge the two of us in some way I didn’t get, in fact I felt just as high as a smoke belly [sic] & felt like to you I was just another knot on some tree.

You will think me screwy as hell for writing this, well I may be even more than that but I felt as if I wanted to get this off my chest & get this in the mail box over here that will be the end for me stopping this letter.

Evelyn Honey, I don’t know how you will take this letter, I think I have read it & know what it contains. You are obligated in no way to answer.

So again let me thank you for just being you & you belittling yourself with my presence & will always be just –

Gene