[Headlines from The New York Times (page 1, above the fold) to place the letters in context of the world around them.]
EVEN EINSTEIN'S LITTLE UNIVERSE IS BIG ENOUGH
Ten Trillion Times as Wide as the Orbit of the Earth, Prof. Eisenhart Estimates. MAY BE NO SPACE OUTSIDE Light at 186,000 Miles a Second Would Require a Billion Years to Go Round It. PROF. EINSTEIN ELUCIDATES (For Those Who Can Understand) His Theory That Our Cosmos Has Its Limi
Hotel Brunswick
I.M. Matteson, Proprietor
CLEAN HOUSE, STEAM HEAT, ELECTRIC
LIGHTS, COURTEOUS TREATMENT
West Winfield, N. Y. Feb. 2, 1921
7:30 a.m.
My Darling:
I was so tired last night and had a hard headache that I went to bed at 8:30 and did not do any writing. I intended to have gone out of here last night at eight o’clock for Utica and on east but I felt so xxxx that I remained over night and am going down to Rich. Springs this morning at 7:45 so I have about two minutes tonite. I worried about you all day yesterday. Please call the Dr. if you don’t feel decidedly better and even if you do you should go to him and tell him how you have felt.
I lost four of my last year’s customers here yesterday–they wouldn’t buy. But I got two nice ones and I made a drive over to Unadilla Forks and when I got back here from xxx drive at eight o’clock I had in all seven orders for about $300.00
Must stop or I’ll lose my train.
Love unbounded,
Jack
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John has excellent handwriting. However, in some instances, I cant decipher it. If I can't, I simply mark the spot with "xxx"s to signify thank the word isn't decipherable.
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