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  • Walter E. Dandy Letter 05/30/1910

    1214 S. Mass. Ave.

    Sedalia, Mo.

    May 30, 1910

    Well My Dear Boy,

    …Got your letter and above all got your present which is fine. But scarcely becoming for an engineer. I will be affraid to dirty it. Besides the standard of other things will have to be considerably elivated or be put badly in the shade. Mama and me had no idea 25 years ago of ever using such nice things. They are sure a contrast from what we started with, but the old saying is true. All good things come to them who wait. And surely their are many good things come to us, things we should and are truly thankful for. Things that even put the magnificent silverware in the shade and which I esteem better then anything on earth. That is my boy and the success he as made. He does not have to be any corporations dog to go at their biding or they will deprive him of work, and therefore of the means of life for him and his loved ones.

    And I can truthfully say that the money spent on you for the purpose of educating you has been the most pleasent of any ever given, or even pleasanter to give it you then to receive it. And as hard as we have both worked to get it (and keep it) it was always our greatest delight to forward our boy all he wanted. And we often have said we never missed it. And now the end is in sight, am glad you are through your most stormy passage and that with good health and mind to direct you the remainder of your course. And I hope your paths will be made as clear to you in the future as the past. For which we could ask nothing more. For you have certainly had everything come just right as though it had come to order.

    Your affectionate Father

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