april 24, 1939

A letter from my Uncle Johnnie to my grandparents, after receiving gifts on the occasion of his wedding to my Aunt Grace.

Dearest Mother and Dad,

To what Grace has already written I want to add that you have my heartfelt and sincere appreciation for what you have done for us.

Your most wonderful check, Mother, and then also the radio were really too generous of you.

I cannot just say thank you because that would be very insufficient.

I am very certain that as you asked in your so wonderful card, that we will think of you often when we listen to our radio and as Grace wrote, we will always remember you in our prayers especially on Saturday morning as we receive Holy Communion and ask God to be always merciful to you and to guide and protect you through life always, so that you will have many happy years left to spend on this earth and then one day, far, far off, I hope, when He calls you, you will receive your reward of eternal peace and happines in Heaven with Him and His Holy Mother and all the angels and saints and your dear departed Mother and Father and all of your loved ones.

I will always think of you Mother, as this kindest, sweetest, tenderest, most devoted and generous mother in the whole world and I feel that I am the most fortunate boy in having had a Mother like you to instill in me the principles of a good honest upright moral life and I also feel that I have only you to thank for all the happiness that has come into my life.

May God bless you, with love and devotion, your son Johnnie