Handwritten on light blue letter-sized paper, turned sideways and folded in half to make a four-half-page letter.<\/p>\r\n
Oddly, the return address on this letter indicates that it\u2019s from \u201cThe Peder Hartman's.\u201d The spelling of Peder<\/i> is because that was Peter\u2019s original (middle) name, but by this time he consistently went by Peter in most contexts and George Peter in some formal contexts. But regardless of spelling, I was taken aback to see Marcy use the pluralize-the-man\u2019s-name naming convention. I suspect that either it was a joke or she was doing it because she thought it would please George and Helen. (I was also taken aback to see her insert an apostrophe into a plural, but I\u2019m guessing that was just a typo.)<\/p>\r\n Friday<\/p>\r\n Hi. found this while I was looking for a postcard to send, to let you know your reservations are made, for Thurs, Fri, & Sat nights. All kinds of things we\u2019d love to do with you, being free and all. But not free yet. Tons of work to get finished. So we\u2019re really working very hard. Have to get off to shop & water the garden\u2014lots of incipient ketchup, some coriander (Peter\u2019s favorite green for salads) (scallions, beans, peas, & one tomato in Jed\u2019s own garden) flowers, radishes, garlic, daikon, red lettuce\u2014The garden plot was written up in the S.F. Chronicle yesterday. Pictures of friends & all.<\/p>\r\n Did Peter ever tell you that he bought a ARGH. So much is happening. \/\/ Do you have a primary in Washington? We\u2019re really impressed with McGovern. Looks like he might get us out of some of the messes Nixon\u2019s gotten us deeper into. (Besides, with a distinguished name like George, how could he miss?! We all know what good things it does for a man!)<\/p>\r\n Oh well, so I try. The boys are finished lunch, my witty attempts are at an end, off to the store & on to Victory.<\/p>\r\n Love,<\/p>\r\n Marcy<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n On the envelope, Marcy added:<\/p>\r\n What this letter was really<\/u> about was to say thank you<\/u> for the pillow! We love it! Kids use it for a hat, when they can.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n Notes:<\/p>\r\n In which everyone is very busy in the run-up to Peter\u2019s graduation from Berkeley. \u201cARGH. So much is happening.\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":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-uc-berkeley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n
xxx<\/strike> bike? Now he glides along on his trusty white steed, with a kid in the seat on the back, even, sometimes. They love it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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