{"id":2014,"date":"1976-10-12T00:01:13","date_gmt":"1976-10-12T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:47:02","slug":"1976-october-12-letter-from-marcy-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1976\/10\/12\/1976-october-12-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1976, October 12: Letter from Marcy to G&H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Handwritten note on both sides of a sheet of fairly thick notepaper.<\/p>\r\n

At the time of this letter, Helen was 68 and George was 64. They were about to celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

October 12, 1976<\/p>\r\n

Dear Grandpa & Grandma<\/p>\r\n

Just a quickie to let you know we\u2019re thinking of you, hoping you\u2019re all survived from your multitudinous surgeries, Grandpa, and thoroughly enjoying your leisure. When you gonna come to see us?<\/p>\r\n

Christmas will be pretty busy, I\u2019ll be working mornings and evenings, with afternoons off to be with the kids, then quitting in January to go back and get a masters\u2019 in psych or counseling. hoping for a scholarship, or fellowship, for re-entry women.<\/p>\r\n

Really behind in a lot of committments, so a real letter will have to wait\u2014<\/p>\r\n

Take good care of yourselves, have a lovely anniversary (present coming soon) and forgive any hasty midnight scrawl.<\/p>\r\n

love,<\/p>\r\n

Marcy.<\/p>\r\n

In Peter\u2019s handwriting:<\/span> Hi from me too \u2014\u2014<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Scuffler\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Notes<\/h2>\r\n
\r\n
surgeries<\/dt>\r\n
I assume this is related to the end of Helen\u2019s July letter<\/a>, in which Helen mentioned that George was retiring soon but might have to have some medical stuff done first.<\/dd>\r\n
masters<\/dt>\r\n
I don\u2019t know what happened to the graduate degree in anthropology that Marcy was pursuing earlier in this year. I don\u2019t think she ever pursued this other degree that she mentions here.<\/dd>\r\n
\u201cScuffler\u201d<\/dt>\r\n
For a quasi-explanation, see a later letter.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief update from Marcy. \u201choping you\u2019re all survived from your multitudinous surgeries, Grandpa, and thoroughly enjoying your leisure.\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":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-cotati"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","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=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}