Comment More letters from Fred than Roma in this batch. The reason seems to be that she is hurt that after asking him in an earlier letter for a loan of $30 to pay her insurance, he has not only not sent the money but not responded at all, even though for her it was …
Roma and Fred #3
Comments. Roma and Fred are so smitten with each other. He's already given her a friendship ring and a thimble (a Freudian condom? invitation to domesticity?), and he talks about a pillow she may be planning to make for him. She wants to share some personal worries with him, which he is keen to hear, …
Roma and Fred #2
More Introduction What struck me about these hundreds of letters exchanged between my maternal grandparents from May 1915 to June 1916 was how independent, flirty and manipulative my grandmother was, and how my grandfather, in spite of his mushy love letters, was a master of secrecy and avoidance. They appear to have met at a …
Roma and Fred
Introduction My maternal grandparents carried on a two-year courtship correspondence between 1915 and 1917, by which time they had married. Roma Belle Mattison and Frederick Benjamin Winter met in Portsmouth, Ohio on May 23, 1915 at “the Edison concert.” She would be 27 in a month, he was 42. Concert going was a popular pastime. …
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