TLS signed in pencil, “Peggy,” five pages, 7 x 11, January 5, 1932. Letter to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Marsh, in part: “One of my good resolutions this year was to answer all letters promptly—a sadly needed resolution, as you doubtless know—but I do not seem to have made much progress. The town suddenly came to life as it always does three days before Christmas and continued at a racketting [sic] gait till three days ago. Now, every one is sick and tired of seeing their friends and every one is perfectly willing to let another year go by before they see them again…You certainly must have had a houseful for Christmas Day. And it must have been fun. I wish there was someway we could manage to be in Wilmington for Christmas or sometime when a lot of the family were gathered together. But it will probably be our luck to light there at a time when Henry is travelling or Frances simply can’t make the trip. However, that’s in the nebulous future for Heaven alone knows when we’ll do any more travelling…We had our annual open house and I stopped counting the guests after eighty arrived. Also, I stopped worrying about whether the sandwiches would hold out. I had risen at dawn to make them and I never know how many to make because I never know how many people will turn up. I think if I were in the middle of the Gobi desert and woke up and found it was Christmas morning, I’d automatically begin to make sandwiches out of fossilized dinosaur eggs or what ever was handy.” Mitchell makes a few handwritten emendations in pencil, and adds a postscript at the conclusion, in full: “I held up this letter as John hoped to ad [sic] a line before I mailed it. But, now that his temperature has gone down to subnormal, he’s awfully tired and effort exhausts him so he says to give you his love. He will write you as soon as his ‘enthusiasm’ returns.” In fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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