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Kerr, Charles H. [to both], May Walden correspondence, undated, 1905-1944

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Open book Kerr, Charles H. [to both], May Walden correspondence, undated, 1905-1944

Title Kerr, Charles H. [to both], May Walden correspondence, undated, 1905-1944

Creator Walden, May, 1865-1960

Date undated, 1905-1944

Language English

Subjects Depressions, Mothers and daughters, Socialist Party (U.S.)

Description Forms part of the Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Los Angeles, July 31, 1932
Dearest Katharine,
Your letter of July 12 was very welcome I was beginning to fear that a letter of yours or of mine might have been lost in the mail. But of course a vacation, either in prospect or while it lasts, takes one's mind off all routine, including letter-writing. Glad you had so pleasant a vacation. The business depression is something far worse than anything I can remember. The worst p[[??]]s one in my recollection was around 1904. I think I wrote you that about four months ago we cut expenses by sharing an apartment with a young man named Lo[[??]] Brown. The experiment has worked all right so far. He has paid his rent in advance, and has helped out on the food budget with all sorts of fruit and vegetables (he makes his living selling produce.) Just now business is bad for him because fruit is so very cheap that it hardly pays to carry around. He can buy good peaches for less than a cent a pound, but they are selling here at two or three cents a pound retail, as he

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Archival Collection Title May Walden papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Walden M Box 1 Folder 46

BibID 991703478805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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