Postcards and letters to Frank (16) from April 14th through end of month. It appears he may have been ill with blood poisoning.
April 14th
Marion [sister, 22] to Frank
Hello, Buster, Providing you'll give me my job back, I'll be there on the train that leaves here at 4:15 Standard Time, Thursday PM. Yours till the sun sinks in the east,
Marion.
“Thus said the monkey as he spit down the elevator shaft. It. Seems to me a little goes a long way.”
April 17th, 1920.
Hoping you may be well again as the wish of a true friend.
W.E. Dutcher.
Dear old “Sunny Jim”
Of course you don't need the words on this card, but some of your callers may, if so, just hand it to them instead of a “lemon.” We are surely glad to know you are better. “Jr.” out, for Prize speaking last night. Morninglight Txxkis. Saturday, AM.
April 19th
To Frank Briggs from his Great Uncle Rudolphus (1846-1935)
R. L. Briggs
Attorney and Counselor at Law
107 West Dominick Street
Rome N.Y.
My dear Frank Rodolphus,
Your grandmother wrote me a few days ago that you had been quite seriously sick. Blood poisoning xx. Xx. Now my boy that is a disease or trouble more common in elderly people. You must be less ambitious.
I hope you are rid of the infection before this. Probably you will be weak so need to be careful for a time. You are my boy, Rodolphus and I can’t spare you. Your big Aunt Myrtie is quite in love with you and sends her love. She is really a very good girl and takes the best care of your old great-uncle. Just now we are having fairly decent weather and we appreciate it after the long hard winter.
Mrs. B[riggs] plans to visit her mother in Lebanon and her sister in Sherburne. May go Thursday the 25th. I may join her in Sherburne for the week and if do think on our way home we will stop over a train at Earlville and say howdy to you. How am I? Oh pretty well for an old fellow. Some rheumatic trouble now and then; but I guess I’ll xxx from it. Are you going back to the farm or will you continue to live where you are now?
Get a move on you and write me a letter. Give love and xxx for mother’s sister. And hxxxk for yourself from great uncle Rodolphus Briggs
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