Harriet Ritter/Barry Burd Genealogy
 

Butch Ritter letter 1933

(Letterhead)

The League of Curtis Junior Managers
The Saturday Evening Post
The Ladies’ Home Journal
The Country Gentleman

July 1, 1933

Dear Cassandra,

            When I read your letter yesterday I was very much elated because maybe I get to go to Chicago. All my life I have always wanted to see the Field Museum of Natural History.  I am saving my pennies as much as I can.  I have a job in an ice cream parlor.  So far I have saved over $3.00.  To-day is payday so I hope to have more this evening.

            Everything is dead around town.  I have been just about as lifeless as it has.  This is the first letter I have written in a long time.  I just sit around and cook.  Once in a while I got up to my laboratory and about kill myself with sulphuric acid or something else.  So far I have only one hole in my pants due to H2SO4.  My cat, Napoleon, disappeared while Mom was in Minnesota.  I have been trying to get another. 

            This town is so uneventful that I can’t even think of anything else to write so I guess I’ll have to quit.

            Love,

P.S. That’s my business signature.  Hartie to you à  Hartein S. Ritter    Trademark