Family letters: 1977
And here are all of the 1977 letters:
- February 22, 1977
- A brief thank-you note from Jay for some birthday presents.
- Also February 22, 1977
- A brief thank-you note from Jed for some birthday presents. (My first letter written in cursive!)
- March 22, 1977
- Notes from Peter and Marcy in anticipation of George and Helen coming to visit. And possibly the first recorded indication of Marcy’s illness, though I’m not sure of that.
- May 13, 1977
- Marcy and Peter send thank-yous and life updates—thoughts about a local cat lady, a raw-food diet, jobs, and more.
- “In preparation [for a job search], I trimmed the beard last night—the scissors slipped, it’s one-thousandth of an inch long now.”
- June, 1977
- Peter is excited about a couple of job-like prospects.
- “I don't think you heard about Mr. Duran, a millionaire in Los Angeles that Marcy & I talked with about a job—and HE’S GETTING ME ONE! (Really!)”
- August 10, 1977
- Marcy talks about various trips and plans and life updates.
- “But today we got up too early for [a kid who was visiting] & he was tired, and ’Quin fell off an airplane wing (an old Navy fighter, painted blue and sealed and set in a huge sandpit and made safe for kid climbers) and I had to sit and judge the relative merits of their respective grouchinesses.”
- August 12, 1977
- Addendum to the previous letter, thanking George and Helen for gifts and mentioning that a couple of friends got married.
- August 15, 1977
- Postcard from Marcy talking briefly about Peter’s job hunt.