Mar. 24, 1932 -
Dear child, be good to yourself. Don't wait to write us long letters but give us even in a few lines any developments good or bad, so we can know what to do to help you.
Very lovingly
Mother
Dear Catherine: -
Have you visited the Louvre. When you stand in front of Victory remember what the Irishman said: "this may be victory but it looks to me as though the other feller put up a good fight."
Daddy.
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She left for Europe in 1931, for a junior year in Spain and France. She was nineteen and she wrote her parents constantly – or at least, they wrote to her. What we have in the files are their letters, not hers.
The letter of March 24 is four pages long. The first three are written in her mother's careful, slanted hand, full of minor tidbits and news and advice. Daddy's addendum is dashed off on the back of page 3, spaced too widely for Mother's neat lines.
To me these encapsulate much of the parental correspondence. Mother is sincere, soft-voiced, determined to impart good and true advice. Daddy is light-hearted and teasing, but the joke is meant to make sure that his darling child goes and sees the Louvre.
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