In
November 2011, I purchased a scrapbook at an antiques mall in Carson,
California. The scrapbook is believed to have belonged to Laurine Wyatt. I am
transcribing the articles and documents contained in the scrapbook with the
hope that it may be of value to genealogists who may be researching the
individuals named.
Laurine must have been very ill and much in need of cheering
up, based on this letter sent to her at St. Joseph Hospital in August 4, 1928.
This delightful letter was neatly folded and kept in the scrapbook in its
original envelope. It does refer to another event for which Laurine had a news
clipping—the
engagement of Ora Beverly Goss and Lucian Leonard Davis of St. Louis, Missouri.
Lucian Davis had two younger sisters, Edith and Helen, the likely writers of
this letter. [Source: 1920 U.S. census, St.
Louis (Independent City), Missouri, population schedule, St. Louis Ward 25,
Enumeration District (ED) 510, Sheet 5A, dwelling 66, family 91, Albert S.
Davis; online images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 February
2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm
publication T625, roll 961.]
E. & H. Davis
7577 Warner Ave.
St. Louis, Mo.
Miss Laurine Wyatt
St. Thomas Hospital
Nashville, Tenn.
Room 416
Special Del.
[the letter]
“Just Anytime —
Anywhere
Fairyland_
Dear little sick girl, we are thinking of you, and we hope you are
feeling better, and will soon be back to the old job. [Every woman's job]
We know you will soon be up and out. We think about you every day,
and would love so much to see you. And to, we hope you will be out before the
wonderful summer breezes are gone. So you can stretch your arms and feel so
free once again.
Everything is at the heigth of its beauty here now. Mother's
flowers are all in bloom. We have red roses, yellow roses, pink roses,
and white roses. Beautiful red zenias, colorful Petunias, happy
larkspurs, towering Tiger Lilies, swaying Hollyhawks, dancing pansies, and Oh!
ever so many more.
And I can't forget our rolly, poly vegetable garden. Saucy parsley,
peppery radishes, slender pole beans, sqatty lettuce leaves, oderless onions,
snippy, nippy parsnips, and red hot jazz mad peppers. Now, what do you think of
that for a vitality giving, bone building, garden?
Now we aren't trying to tempt you, or anything like that, but you
know these vitality giving, bone building, morsels are what you need, and we
are only trying to help the doctor.
And, too, we want to tempt you with these healthy things so you will soon be strong enough to fill our mail tray
Our little fairies wish you nothing but luck. They say they enjoyed
their visit very much. I know you must have liked them too. One little fairy
goes with everyeach letter to bring you a good message of cheer. Oh! yes
we fairies have a Queen, but she never travels away from our Castle ^of
happiness. If she did it would crumble and fall away. And so it is a great
privilege to have her picture here.
This picture was made
especially for you. —>
I suppose you know there is going to be a happy celebration at Turkey
Time. And we shall be speeding toward your city to attend this
magnificant affair. [Ora's and Lucian's wedding of course.]
And we hope to see our little friend when we arrive.
You can't imagine who we are, because fairies do not tell their
names. So open this book and in it you will the images of two—Alas! —two Monkey
Dunks.
Just feel how woozy we are.
Love, Oooze & Wooze”
© 2012 Denise Spurlock, Ancestral Trees Research
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