1942 Letter "At Sea" to Dr. Windrow

1942 Letter "At Sea" to Dr. Windrow

Letter written January 3, 1942 from a former Peabody Demonstration School student. Excerpted from an "Armed Forces" scrapbook of letters, newspaper clippings, and more by unknown collector.

Jan 3, -42
At Sea

Dear Mr. Windrow and all my friends at Peabody,

You will pardon my informal note paper - my fleeting memory and surely the sparsity of information -

First I am in the Pacific and I do not mean California or Hawaii - it is very warm - Everything I see is surely not reminiscent of home and yet I can reminisce of Easter morning - Knapp farm - old friends & their wives, & children. The ham & eggs or sausage. The buttercups in bloom and violets too.

I can think too of my happy childhood days, of the time Maggie Robinson put me out in the hall for talking and I hid in a locker to keep Mr. Yarborough from seeing me - of Mr. Gatwood and the Senior plays - of the dances - of modeling clay in Kindergarten, of Peabody football heydays when Ed Westland & Roy Huggins were in the prime - of the learning of the beauty of Chaucer's first lines - & memorizing them.

I treasure them yet & thank Miss Heath for ....
of are the happy days of work for you & all after graduation -
Of how S.C. [Garrison] & I [?] to work Algebra together.

These are things I like to think of when far away.

These are the things I cherish, the places & people I love.

Please give my kindest regards to everyone from the [....] Pearl to yourself - and on then the college, to Ethel, Mr. Dutch, Miss Harris, Otis, the pitcher collector, Dr. Crabb, Mc McCann?, Dr. [?], and Dr. Garrison.

Very Sincerely,
[.....]