{"id":15617,"date":"1967-07-31T00:00:31","date_gmt":"1967-07-31T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/letters\/letters_from_marcy_1967-07-31.html"},"modified":"2019-02-24T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T08:21:55","slug":"letters-from-marcy-1967-07-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/1967\/07\/31\/letters-from-marcy-1967-07-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters from Marcy #25: 31 July 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

This one was written with what I think is either a sharp crayon or a very thick colored pencil.<\/p>\r\n

The casual mention of “the wedding” suggests that Marcy had previously told her parents that she and Peter had gotten married, but unfortunately that was during the gap in surviving correspondence. I don\u2019t know whether she told them that the wedding wasn\u2019t a legal\/official one.<\/p>\r\n

I\u2019m not sure what to make of the “kicking” line; Marcy was pregnant with me by this time, but only about a month into the pregnancy; she may not even have known she was pregnant. (More on that topic in the next letter.) And I don\u2019t know what “we have concerts” means. (It\u2019s possible I misread that, but I\u2019m not sure what else it might say.)<\/p>\r\n

This note mentions someone named “Mary.” After I found her full name in another letter, I went and looked her up, and have now gotten in touch with her; I\u2019ll report back if\/when I learn more.<\/p>\r\n

This note included some materials about the Six-Day School; I\u2019ll post those when I get them scanned.<\/p>\r\n

Here are two of the wedding photos<\/a> taken by the professional photographer she mentions.<\/p>\r\n

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Hullo\u2014<\/p>\r\n

Truly sorry not to have writ in so long; this isn\u2019t much of a letter either, as I\u2019m unable to find a pencil, but just wanted to let you know I\u2019m still alive & kicking, notably the latter, & Peter is too (we have concerts.)<\/p>\r\n

No news yet on pictures of the wedding\u2014we went to the (ugh!) city last wednesday to pick up some forgotten toys & the one professional photographer who took pictures has been working madly on some deadline stuff; Mary took some pictures, but she\u2019s been living up at the ranch & hasn\u2019t come down to her darkroom yet; we weren\u2019t able to reach Rabbit to see if he developed anything\u2014<\/p>\r\n

The city was a mess, but we did get to go to Sacramento to check on state requirements for private schools; it looks like we can<\/u> do it. I may have to stay home from the class at Lost this week & do some details, as we are having a conference with the county Supt. of Schools on Wednesday, & we need to have all kinds of official offal under control by then. Hope I don\u2019t miss the class; we are going to learn how to butcher a chicken, which is something I ought to be able to do (collossal nerve to eat something you aren\u2019t able to kill yourself) but am rather squeamish about.<\/p>\r\n

Aha! I have a sacred & holy mission: to ask you to ask Uncle Hyman for a recipe for good sour Jewish rye\u2014no<\/u> cookbooks have any real<\/u> recipes that we\u2019ve found\u2014they\u2019re all for Swedish rye or rye-whole wheat, or something, but about 6 of us would love to make good<\/u> rybread, no matter how much work. So please ask when you get a chance. (How are they, & Deenah\u2019s baby? I never did write to her, alas)<\/p>\r\n

This is getting a little thick for airmail, so I\u2019ll stop now. Regards to Sachses & Rosenbergs & all, you guys could write sometimes, too\u2014 love from Peter,<\/p>\r\n

& Love,<\/p>\r\n

Marcia<\/p>\r\n

P.S.<\/p>\r\n

finally found a pencil\u2014enclosed is literature on the 6-day school, with pencil notes & blue underlinings by me\u2014also a book cover that you ought to get and<\/u> read<\/u> the book that belongs inside of\u2014someone gave it to us recently\u2014if you want to know more about the school we\u2019re dreaming about, read Summerhill<\/u>, by A. S. Neill, and How Children Fail<\/u>, by John Holt\u2014both are in paperback, at the Arcade, at 15th & Chestnut, if you can\u2019t find them elsewhere. They\u2019ll even mail them to you\u2014(or try the library)<\/p>\r\n

Love,<\/p>\r\n

M.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Postmark: Mendocino, Calif, Jul 31, 1967. Return address: Hartman, General Delivery, Mendocino, California. Handwritten: “Rec\u2019d this 8\/5\/67” and “Ans. this 8\/6\/67.”<\/p>\r\n

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Facebook post for this letter<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First mention in these letters of Peter and Marcy\u2019s wedding; also, some discussion of the school they were planning. Also: \u201cI have a sacred & holy mission: to ask you to ask Uncle Hyman for a recipe for good sour Jewish rye\u2014no cookbooks have any real recipes that we\u2019ve found\u2014they\u2019re all for Swedish rye or rye-whole wheat, or something, but about 6 of us would love to make good rybread, no matter how much work.\u201d","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-parents","category-mendocino"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15956,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions\/15956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/marcy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}