In this letter of January 5, 1939, Laura Kephart writes her son Leonard Kephart to apologize for the last letter, to share news from the Birds, and to wish him a happy birthday.
In this letter of December 12, 1938, Laura Kephart writes her son Leonard Kephart to share what she has been up to and where she has been. She says that she was able to buy herself something with the money I. K. Stearns sent her from the sale of the…
In this letter of January 5, 1938, Laura writes her son Leonard Kephart to wish him a happy birthday. The letter is mistakenly dated December 5. She shares the details of her Christmas at the Lurch where her daughter Lucy lives, as well as that of…
In this letter of November 15, 1938, Laura Kephart writes to Frances and Leonard Kephart to ask them if they would send her a note that she could read at the table at Thanksgiving in Boonville. She is asking the other children to do the same so that…
In this letter of November 4, 1938, Laura Kephart writes her son Leonard and encloses Cornelia’s letter of October 31. She offers up some solutions for Buddy’s schooling, including having him stay with her. She says she hopes that Buddy will take the…
In this letter of October 31, 1938, Cornelia writes her mother Laura Kephart to tell her about her trip to Cleveland to visit her husband’s side of the family, the Smalls. While there she visited with her nephew Buddy, Leonard’s son, and asks that…
In this letter of October 12, 1938, Laura Kephart writes to her son Leonard Kephart to give him the details of the mastoid surgeries his nephew Leonard is undergoing for both the right and the left side of his head. She fills him in on other news…
In this short letter of March 31, 1938, Laura Kephart writes to her son Leonard Kephart to let him know his sister Barbara and her husband Roy are moving. Roy has a new job as manager of Woodlands for the Gould Paper Company.
In this letter of March 13, 1938, Laura Kephart writes her son Leonard Kephart to let him know she is home from helping Lucy and Karl Fernow at The Lurch because Mrs. Fernow is out of the hospital. She says that she has two dresses to send to…
In this letter of February 23, 1938, Laura Kephart writes her son Leonard Kephart from The Lurch where her daughter Lucy and husband Karl Fernow live. She is there to help while Karl’s mother, Mrs. Fernow, is in the hospital after an emergency…