Photos of Jim, Jennie, and Flora

Here are some photos of the three writers of letters.  The one of Jennie is from 1908, so about 4 years earlier than these current letters.  I don't see dates for either the one of Flora or the formal portrait of Jim.

This is Flora McEwen.

  

This is Jennie, 1908.

This is Jim.

July 7 (posted July 8), 1912

Jim apparently was not able to get to Val Morin for the weekend; he had to work late on Saturday.  People put in long hours, more like the hours that I presently watch my friends in IT, law, or medicine, putting in than like the hours my father kept when he was an engineer.   Apparently, he gave the ticket that Jennie had sent him to her mother so that she could also have a little holiday.

   

 

   

 

Sorry about the margins here.  Blogger seems to have a limit to the number of .jpg's that they will allow me to drop in to a single post, and that is how my printer's scanner treats the letters that I scan.

I think Dome Ex is a stock that Jim or Jennie (or both?) invested in.

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July 4, 1912--Jim writes from the office

Meanwhile, Jim writes another letter from work, fairly late into the evening. (I guess work-life balance was as big an issue in his day as in ours!)  He types on office stationery, and pins the two pages together with a straight pin--or maybe Jennie did that later.    It's very hard to get this paper to lie flat after a century folded in its envelope.  But I think most of it is nevertheless legible.