1971, July 28: Postcard from Marcy to G&H
Postcard, en route to Philadelphia. “All’s well, (tho we forgot the cheese.)”
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1971, July 31: Postcard from Marcy to G&H
Postcard from Missoula, en route to Philadelphia. “Well, there we were in Missoula, for about 10 minutes.”
1971, August 2: Postcard from Marcy to G&H
A postcard from Wyoming. “Wyoming is very conscious of children.”
1971, August 3: Postcard from Jed to G&H
In which I see a bear at Yellowstone. “bears are dangerous & they can swat you with their paws”
1971, August 9: Letter and postcard from Jed to grandparents
Letter “from” me to George and Helen, and passing along an earlier postcard that had been from me to Ethel. “Please keep this postcard for me till I get there.”
1971, August 18: Letter from Marcy to G&H
Marcy describes the trip to Philadelphia and how her mother was doing. “perhaps the most useful thing of all (for the trip, anyway) was leaving all that extraneous junk behind”
1971, November 2: Letter from Peter to G&H
In which Peter asks his parents to read Pursuit of Loneliness (as a birthday present to Peter), asks his parents to join a pyramid scheme, and describes a psi experiment that he’s planning. “you’d stand to realize, if the chain remained unbroken, […] the sum of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.”
1971, November 10: Letter from Marcy to G&H
In which Marcy extols the virtues of Marmite, asks George and Helen to send winter clothes, and recounts Jay’s vocabulary. “A thick black sauce, it tastes almost unbearable just plain, but verra verra tasty mixed in with bland things like cream cheese”
1972, January 16: Postcard from Jed to G&H
In which Laurel and I go to Children’s Fairyland.
1972, January 26: Postcard from Marcy to G&H
A brief placeholder postcard about an unsent letter.