Dear Vance:
Your presents are very nice indeed and you said you wouldn’t spend much on us! The etchings are lovely and will make a fine group over the mantel. Thank you, and don’t do it again. These look like money to me. You mustn’t make false promises, you know, about not spending much on Xmas presents. Well, these things are the aristocrats among pictures. I feel I’ll have to live up to them . . . The glass on both etchings was smashed to bits but they were not hurt. We took them to town and Oud’s replaced the glass for the princely sum of 55 cents for both. It is good clear glass, too, bright and shiny, so don’t tear your hair. There was lots of packing but too much weight on them, I think, in mails.
No one here can recall such rain and floods at this time of year ever and we had such high winds for a week or more. June’s old bean house blew down onto grass separator damaging it a good deal. . . Dad cut the tall pine just back of the house. It had become dangerous, but there are still others back of it to shelter the house. He also cut the group of small pines just northwest of the hog house. Some were dead and now it gives us a beautiful view of trees and mountains to the north and east. We hated to cut them but are glad to be so we can see out and we have such lovely changing pictures.
P.S. If you are near a radio, tune in on the Columbia network Saturday p.m., 7 o’clock and hear Byrd talk . . .
Your presents are very nice indeed and you said you wouldn’t spend much on us! The etchings are lovely and will make a fine group over the mantel. Thank you, and don’t do it again. These look like money to me. You mustn’t make false promises, you know, about not spending much on Xmas presents. Well, these things are the aristocrats among pictures. I feel I’ll have to live up to them . . . The glass on both etchings was smashed to bits but they were not hurt. We took them to town and Oud’s replaced the glass for the princely sum of 55 cents for both. It is good clear glass, too, bright and shiny, so don’t tear your hair. There was lots of packing but too much weight on them, I think, in mails.
No one here can recall such rain and floods at this time of year ever and we had such high winds for a week or more. June’s old bean house blew down onto grass separator damaging it a good deal. . . Dad cut the tall pine just back of the house. It had become dangerous, but there are still others back of it to shelter the house. He also cut the group of small pines just northwest of the hog house. Some were dead and now it gives us a beautiful view of trees and mountains to the north and east. We hated to cut them but are glad to be so we can see out and we have such lovely changing pictures.
P.S. If you are near a radio, tune in on the Columbia network Saturday p.m., 7 o’clock and hear Byrd talk . . .
This view to the north and east was taken by Ina in 1934. In another letter she provided that the only camera she has is a little Kodak with "one viewfinder up and down."
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