{"id":721,"date":"1972-04-10T00:01:59","date_gmt":"1972-04-10T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=721"},"modified":"2022-07-03T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:12:50","slug":"1972-april-10-letters-from-marcy-and-jed-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1972\/04\/10\/1972-april-10-letters-from-marcy-and-jed-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1972, April 10: Letters from Marcy and Jed to G&H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
One-page handwritten letter from Marcy, followed by one-page handwritten letter \u201cfrom\u201d me (probably dictated by me) and written by Marcy. I had just turned four years old.<\/p>\r\n
Mailed almost exactly 50 years ago as I write this!<\/p>\r\n
Also included in the envelope with these letters was an acrostic puzzle from the San Francisco Chronicle<\/cite> that Peter had completed in about 20 minutes with no errors. I\u2019m not sure whether Marcy included the acrostic just to brag about Peter, or whether she thought George and Helen would like the quote (about love, from Ashley Montagu\u2019s The Cultured Man<\/cite>), or what.<\/p>\r\n
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Grandma<\/p>\r\n
Thanks so much for the letters. They\u2019re wending their way.<\/p>\r\n
We have a funny situation. The course-&-credits computer, in it\u2019s biannual ^^biennial?^^ evaluation decided suddenly that Peter needed another math course & 2 composition courses. He convinced them that he knows enough algebra but has yet to persuade them that he knows how to read & write, so as not to have to take two (2)(!!) Frosh english courses. Which there\u2019d be no way he xxx<\/strike> could do this quarter anyway. So if his list of 800 authors and so forth isn\u2019t satisfactory it\u2019s going to mean Fall quarter, possibly winter too, with no<\/u> financial aid (past the deadline for application), welfare scheduled to stop in June\u2014oh well, whatever\u2019s supposed to happen will.<\/p>\r\n
Thanks again for the letters. They were letter perfect!<\/p>\r\n
love,<\/p>\r\n
P M & J\u2019s<\/p>\r\n
Aside written in the middle of the above paragraph<\/span> (By the way, could you look around for any papers or anything Peter may have written any time at U.W. \u2019Twould be appreciated most extremely!)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
And here\u2019s the part from me:<\/p>\r\n
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Dear Grandma & Grandpa<\/p>\r\n
Thank you for the wheeler and the yo yo in xxx<\/strike> shape of a baseball.<\/p>\r\n
I have a play-doh game. It\u2019s about the play-doh getting squeezed out and it will make a king and a queen.<\/p>\r\n
Written in the margin next to the above paragraph:<\/span> this is a coin-press<\/p>\r\n
It has a squeezer and a box that shows you the directions. It makes a king & queen. You have to take a piece of tinfoil and put it in the squeezer<\/p>\r\n
I have a new drawer with hooks in it. (Sorry\u2014this is the point where I fell asleep) I found it in the courtyard. I\u2019m gonna get a tea party [set] for my BIRFDAY and put it in the box that has hooks.<\/p>\r\n
That\u2019s all.<\/p>\r\n
Love,<\/p>\r\n
Jed.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nDrawing of Smokey the Bear\u2019s forest fire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
At the bottom of that page, there\u2019s a drawing, sorta kinda: a scribble, which Marcy labeled \u201cThis is Smokey the Bear\u2019s forest fire.\u201d I vaguely recall being a big Smokey Bear fan for a while when I was a kid.<\/p>\r\nJed\u2019s name, hand-written by Jed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
On the back of that page, there are a couple of attempts by me to print my name, in large block capitals. In one, I was a little shaky on the D, so someone (presumably Marcy) wrote a large capital D for me to use as a model. This version of my name that I\u2019m showing here was apparently my next attempt, at which I did much better. Next to it, Marcy wrote: \u201cJed wrote this one all<\/u> by<\/u> himself<\/u>\u2014held the pen correctly, too\u201d<\/p>\r\nDrawing of a bear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
Nearby on the back of the page was a drawing, next to which Marcy wrote: \u201cJedo asked for a little baby bear\u2014this was best I could do.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
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