{"id":17,"date":"1968-06-03T00:01:24","date_gmt":"1968-06-03T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-07-03T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T20:51:40","slug":"1968-june-3-letter-from-marcy-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1968\/06\/03\/1968-june-3-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1968, June 3: Letter from Marcy to G&H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

This is a handwritten note from my mother, Marcy, to Peter\u2019s parents, George and Helen. It\u2019s dated only about nine days after the last letter that I have from Marcy to her own parents<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

On the envelope of this one, in Helen\u2019s handwriting I think, it says: \u201cOur 1st letter from our daughter-in-law Marcy\u201d but then under that it says \u201c?\u201d My understanding from Marcy\u2019s letters to her own parents is that Peter hadn\u2019t been on good terms with his parents for a while before I was born. I don\u2019t think that Marcy had met George and Helen in person when she wrote this.<\/p>\r\n

Also on the envelope, the last lines of the \u201cTo\u201d address read: \u201cTacoma, Washington, Zip.\u201d I assume that was because Marcy didn\u2019t have George and Helen\u2019s ZIP Code (this was after ZIP Codes, but only by a few years), but I\u2019m amused that she wrote in the word \u201cZip.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Inside the envelope, the note is written on a Transport A Child notecard, the same design as the notecard on which Marcy had written a note to her parents a few months earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Here\u2019s the letter:<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

3 June 1968<\/p>\r\n

Dear Mrs H__, Mr H__, & all,<\/p>\r\n

Thanks for the wonderful idea\u2014we\u2019ll get in touch with Patty & Joe & probably make arrangements with them, or else we\u2019ll be there by car in time for the wedding.<\/p>\r\n

Expect you\u2019re very busy with plans & arrangements\u2014we are too, trying to get moved and packed and all those things\u2014Are you leaving for NY very soon?<\/p>\r\n

We\u2019ll see you on the 14th or a bit before<\/p>\r\n

Peter,<\/p>\r\n

Marcy,<\/p>\r\n

Jed<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Patty and Joe were cousins of George\u2019s (specifically, Patty was the daughter of George\u2019s uncle Pope and aunt Mildreth<\/a>), who lived in California at the time. Joe died in 1998, and Patty in 2004. I imagine that I met them at some point, but I have no memory of them at all.<\/p>\r\n

The wedding that Marcy mentioned in the letter was my Uncle Paul and Aunt Linda\u2019s.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

Facebook post for this letter<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcy\u2019s first letter to George & Helen, a note planning impending travel. \u201cDear Mrs H__, Mr H__, & all\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-harbinger"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}