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  • Walter E. Dandy Letter 09/01/1912

    89 Anson Street

    Barrow in Furness, England

    c. Fall 1912

    My Dear Son,

    …Most of the people here spend it all and if the work is off a week they are starving. You should see the women going to saloons and drinking. 3 big fat women came out of the saloon the other night as we were passing. They had been in drinking. Another came out was so drunk could hardly walk. I stopped to watch her. It seemed such a terrible condition for a woman to be in. Pa says there were plenty of them in London.

    Well I wish we could decide what or where to go, but maybe things will clear up later. I think we have decided to come back to America. We have nobody here we care about or they care about us and the climate is just as good in America except a few months in summer.…

    We are going out to tea this evening to Mr. Cranston's. We have been once before when we left for America 27 years ago. He was a very poor man. Now he is living independant. They say he has an income of £10 per week. He has about 20 houses in this town. He used to work in the shipyard, but quit and went in the second hand business. Bought old furniture cheap. Sold it high. He is a very nice man.…

    If there are any spelling B.'s in America let us know. Pa might run away with the first prize. Don't you see the marked improvement in that line (I don't).…

    Your loving Mother

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