Monday, May 7, 2018

Family telegram #1:
"DONT DISAPPOINT HIM"


Here's the first of two telegrams that I came across while (still) sorting through family scrapbooks and ephemera.

This one is torn and incomplete, but I'm fairly certain that it was addressed to my grandmother, Helen Chandler Adams Ingham (1919-2003), from her then-mother-in-law. This would have been during or shortly after World War II. It states:
LETTER FROM JACK SAYING HE RETURNING TO STATES IMEDIATELY [sic] WE WANT YOU TO COME TO TYLER AT ONCE SO THAT YOU WILL BE HERE ON HIS ARRIVAL THIS IS OUR WISH AND JACKS PARTICULARLY DONT DISAPPOINT HIM WE SHALL LOOK FORWARD TO A BIG HAPPY REUNION
AIR MAIL FOLLOWS =
MOTHER GENE.
Tyler could refer to either a place in Utah or, more likely, Texas. Helen and Jack spent time together in both places. It probably won't surprise you too much, reading this telegram, to know that Helen and Jack were eventually divorced.

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Check back tomorrow night for Family Telegram #2.

1 comment:

  1. I'm glad this withstood the test of time... but also a bit sad.

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