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  • Walter E. Dandy Letter 07/20/1928

    Yesterday was a hot day if there ever was one! Kansas City was the hottest place in the United States: 93 - but it didn’t seem so bad. There isn’t the humidity that obtains in Baltimore. Passed through Sedalia about 6:30 last night. The Missouri countryside is perfectly beautiful, almost prettier than I ever saw it before. And it is about as fine country as one can see anywhere. And Sedalia is the heart of it! By looking at time tables I found that it is possible to come by way of Kansas City - spend all night at a hotel and get to El Paso as quickly as if I went from St. Louis direct. Of course you don’t know geography very well, but Kansas City is closer to El Paso. Just like you say, “Walter knows more flowers than I do.” I retort by saying, “He knows more geography.”

    What did you do all day yesterday while I was writing about the operation for tic douloureux? I hope it didn’t rain and keep him indoors. I watched a little boy yesterday and wondered how old. He seemed about like my boy - but he was a year older! So you see, either one of your boys is very smart or the other very dense. I guess he is on his way to graduation at 16 and that explains it. Tell Walter his daddy would like to show him the big corn and wheat fields. Corn is 6 or 7 “legs high” along the Missouri River bottoms. The wheat seems to be all cut. Perhaps they will be threshing in Kansas.

    How are my two little girls? I hope the bigger little pal is not having too hard a time. It won’t be long now. And then we will have established our family - or half of it, according to your original ambition. Kiss them all and hug them tight. Do you still put the little sunflower in the grass yard? Wasn’t she sweet?

    With all my love to Sammy, Walter and Mary Ellen,

    Walter

    If Margaret comes Monday, she can leave the car at the station and put the keys under the dashboard. x x x x x x

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