Family letters: Late 1972, early 1973
This week in my family history project: A Marine World visit; a letter from Peter explaining how much debt we were in; a response from Grandpa George advising us on how to deal with the debt; a letter from Peter and Marcy explaining that the debt wasn’t such a big deal after all.
- November-ish, 1972
- A Marine World visit, plus assorted other tidbits.
- “man puts head between jaws of killer whale:::Peter: ‘Hey, Jed, look at that! What do you think of that?’ Jed: ‘Oh, yeah, I saw that on television.’”
- January 4, 1973
- Peter describes the amounts of money that we owed to various organizations and people.
- “we have not forgotten our obligation to you, but they’ve turned off the water and, and, and…”
- January 8, 1973
- A copy of a letter from George! One of the very few letters-from-Grandparents in this family-letters archive. In this one, George expresses consternation about the amount of our debt.
- “Not that we can help that much financially, but the burden is just too great for anybody to be living almost from hand to mouth and always behind.”
- January 15, 1973
- Peter and Marcy attempt to reassure George that their financial situation isn’t so bad after all.
- “Please bear in mind that Peter’s original estimate was somewhat on the negative side because he was very depressed & worried about that late paycheck, & also because I do most of the keeping track of funds & he wasn’t aware of what had already been paid.”