8-30-1939 Orville to Miss Evelyn Bramley

8-30-1939 Orville to Miss Evelyn Bramley

Envelope:

Miss Evelyn Bramley

McLemoresville, Tenn.

Postmark: 8-31-1939 Cedartown, GA

Letterhead:

Inter-office Communication

Cedartown, Ga.

Aug. 30, 1939

My Dearest Evelyn,

I’m hoping that by this time you are safe at home and not too tired from the long drive. I know I’m not supposed to write you tonight and as far as having something to write about I should not, but it will let you know that I’m thinking of you and am just a little worried about you. I’m afraid if Ruth had not gone with you I would be frantic about your safety.

I’m glad to report that the trip from Marietta last night in Willie was successful and for once uneventful. It was definately my last trip in that mechanical jitterbug. Today I had tried to print some big “for sale” signs on his graceful stream-lined body and I’ll see if Barnum was right when he said there’s a sucker born every minute. Maybe someone will have a lapse of consciousness and buy the little fellow. We already have several good prospects and I believe that by the first of next week we will be at a parting of the ways. It grieves me beyond words to think of sucha seperation.

Back to more serious lines I do hope so much that when you come back you will be happier and in a little better frame of mind about the attitude your dad and mother have about our getting married. I hope that we won’t have to be so vague about the time, the place, and the kind of wedding when folks ask us about it. We have already sacrificied about three months for them and by now they should feel like we are sure of ourselves and that we really love each other and can make a success of marriage. You have and must know that I have been fair with them and everyone else concerned and if we have to marry against their wishes I’ll never worry one minute about it.

We start our classes tomorrow night, Paul being the instructor. They should be very interesting and beneficial to all of us. We will continue to have them all winter so I’m asking now for a short while here at the office about two nights a week. I’ll do my studying at home while you are ironing or reading a book. It’s like starting to school all over again, hope they have a football team and maybe I’ll pass my work.

There is no local news of any particular interest; Sam is really looking for a house, he promises to be out by the 15^th of Sept.; a whiskey store was robbed of several cases last night, someone probably envious of the Fire Dep’t on Monday night.

It’s going to be lonesome for me and will probably worry a little after all but this is your vacation and have a good time. When my vacation time comes around I do mean to enjoy it.

Give my regards to your dad & mother and tell them that whether they like it or not I still want to be their son-in-law. They have a more lovely daughter than anyone else in the world and I do love her so very much.

Always

Orville