Dearest Ellen,
I feel like a heel, honey because I didn't write you a letter to arrive Sat., but I just couldn't find time or get in the proper mood to write. I hope you will forgive me and I promise I will try to do better.
I'm still at Kankakee and probably will be here until Wednesday as I know now. Uncle Jim is trying to get a couple lawn to fix and if he does I may stay and work on them for more than a week. So far we haven't really closed the deal on any of the plans I have drawn but we have hopes. As yet we haven't really had a refusal which makes us feel better. We have present three of them and ought to hear from one before the next week is over. One has postponed theirs for two weeks and the third is just uncertain because of cost.
I haven't heard from home yet so I don't know how things are going down there. I got both your fine letters Wednesday. They both came in the same mail. One was postmarked 8 P.M. in Milwaukee. I'll bet you carried it and forgot to mail it until you got there. The other was marked 11:30 P.M. in Madison. It certain made me feel swell to get your letters. I'm sorry you strained your shoulder in carrying that heavy grip. Too bad you couldn't have checked it or something so you wouldn't have had to carry it. I hope it gets well quickly. I'll bet your mother was glad to see you when you arrived after being gone so long.
We've had a swell time this week and only, honey, I wished you were here. I had a date, surprised? There was another dance at the Country Club like when you were here. Jean wanted to show me a good time so she invited a friend who went to school at Grinnell with her. Her name was Jean Hill and I'll bet you will be surprised at this - she lives at Glen Ellyn, Ill. Jean called her up on the telephone Friday afternoon and she came Saturday aft. She was good looking or should I say beautiful. She had really black hair, not quite as tall as you, and had pretty eyes but I didn't notice what color. And could she dance!! I tried all my steps and she followed swell just like you - only your better. We had a swell time. They had a Monte Carlo night with roulette and everything. We bought play money and bet with it. We won for a while but finally lost it all. The crowd was nearly as large and the orchestra was the same. After the dance, they served a buffet supper of escalloped chicken and all the trimmings. We didn't get home till after
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This morning we all got up early and went to church with Jean. Afterwards, breakfast, and then we all went to play tennis. Jean Hill is a good player, she has played since she was small and plays nearly every afternoon -- but I could beat her. Bill and I teamed up against the two Jeans and had a real battle. We finally won the first set after a struggle and then won the second in a love set. Next Mike and Jean H. played against me and a friend of Mike's called Sterling. It was certainly a close set with Sterling and me winning 8-6. It was a close match all the way with luck on our side.
We had a swell dinner here, one of Aunt Grace's swell dinners, and then went boating. The canoe was being used so we took the motorboat and then got the canoe and rode home. Jean left for home at 6 o'clock. Her folks drove down to get her. All and all its been a swell time. Now Bill and Jean are on the porch reading Francis Bacon and his philosophy --. Aunt Grace and Uncle Jim have gone to town and I'm -- well, I'm thinking of the swellest person alive -- who lives so far away. Would you like to know her name? -- its Ellen Glenn. -- Ellen Glenn -- Glen Ellyn?? -- Well I prefer Ellen Glenn. How would you like to spell your name Ellyn?? Not near so nice, eh! I prefer just Ellen Glenn. A very pretty name and goes with the prettyest, nicest, swellest girl I know.
All my love,
Larry
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