ALS signed “Clara,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, February 20, 1956. Lengthy letter to her friend Molly, referencing her health, her two sons, and her upcoming move to Culver City, in part: “As I told you in my Christmas note I’ve been very much under the weather for the last several years—my health in general is very shaky and my sleeping atrocious. I don’t take any sedation to help me to sleep anymore and the sledding is pretty rough…I heard from Tony recently and he received a straight B average in all of his college studies not bad do you think? Georgie the little devil never writes to me, but he is doing better at the Las Vegas high-school than he did at…Naval & Military School for which I’m thankful…I hope you will forgive my long silence before you received my first Christmas note, but it was due entirely to illness. I haven’t seen anyone outside of my immediate family for over two years. I simply withdrew and went into a shell. I hate to be around my friends unless I feel in the pink. I’m so afraid to bore people with sickness. I am moving from my present address sometime in March. I bought a very small house near Culver City. The house is a little too small but I think its yard sold me on it…I’m trying to hold expenses down to a minimum as with a fixed income one has to be careful. Haven’t had a phone for almost two years but will have one installed somehow in April in my new abode. I’ll contact you sometime in April or May when I am settled down…I have had a terrific weight problem for the last six months. I don’t eat much but I now weigh 154 pds, I don’t think you would recognize me as I am. I hate extra poundage and I’m fat as a butter-ball—wouldn’t mind too much if I felt better fat but I don’t,—oh well, guess I’m suffering from the middle-aged spread.” In fine condition, with light soiling to the center panel of the signed side. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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