{"id":1870,"date":"2018-04-09T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=1870"},"modified":"2018-11-29T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:29:09","slug":"march-8-1941-greenville-illinois","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/greenville-illinois-1941\/march-8-1941-greenville-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#edf2f9;    '>\r\n                            Tom is distracted by a 2-year-old little girl who enjoys calling him a monkey. He filled in for a teacher who was ill. Tom is planning a trip to Chicago for Freshman visitation at Northwestern University, in anticipation of starting there in the fall.\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>Mon. night.<\/p>\n<p>Dearest,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1874\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1874\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pardon the pencil but Agnes is using my pen I&#8217;ll try to grab it long enough to address the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Maxwell is here and he has a little daughter about 2 years old I&#8217;m just about ready to move when I see her and the things she does I see why some people get discouraged about getting married. I went to the show last night and took Mary. It was &#8220;Andy Hardy Private Secretary&#8221; it was really pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>When are you coming home? Two weeks from Sat. I am going to Chicago all of next year&#8217;s freshman have to be there and set in on the classes and answer some questions, those are the little things that make life awful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/dorothy-stoutzenberg\/\">Miss Stoutzenberg<\/a> was sick today and I taught the 8th hour class we really had a picnic, and a test tomorrow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1875\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1875\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois-Page-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois, Page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I am going to ever finish this letter that little _____ keeps running in and telling me I am a monkey.<\/p>\n<p>I got your letter this morning and you can say anything yhou want to about <a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/james-e-cearnal\/\">Jim C<\/a>. without being Catty as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n<p>I just got a kiss from Dr. Maxwell&#8217;s daughter she&#8217;s sorry she called me a monkey and had to kiss me. I am anxious for Easter then I&#8217;ll call you a monkey. (We&#8217;ll make up the same way, I think that&#8217;s a good idea. Don&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n<p>Write soon.<\/p>\n<p>With love,<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;m glad you liked that last letter and remember I still love you and will always.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1873\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1873 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/March-8-1941-Greenville-Illinois.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mon. night. Dearest, Pardon the pencil but Agnes is using my pen I&#8217;ll try to grab it long enough to address the letter. Dr. Maxwell is here and he has a little daughter about 2 years old I&#8217;m just about ready to move when I see her and the things she does I see why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/greenville-illinois-1941\/march-8-1941-greenville-illinois\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March 8, 1941, Greenville, Illinois<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1678,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-zoe-foran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1870\/revisions\/3713"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}