Correspondence from Ninette Shumway to Karl Germer

 

 

 

[1 April 1926]

 

 

Dear Karl,

 

I would like you and Beast to reconsider sending Howard [Howard Shumway] to America. His aunt would take him while sister Helen [Helen Fraux] defrayed expenses.

 

Howard will be 10 years old in July. . . . It might be best if I went to America too. . . . Could live in Florida, work for some money and have a big garden.

 

Contract for St. Barbara ends in July. . . . I send my love to each and all. Let Beast hold no grudge—I put no ill will in this matter of Lulu [Astarte Lulu Panthea Crowley].—Kiss him for me.

 

Ninette

 

Can't afford meat and charcoal all gone. . . . Please talk these questions over with Beast and Astrid [Dorothy Olsen].

 

The children are well. Lulu caught a light sore-throat from me but is all better again. The weather is rotten—rain and cold.

 

 

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