524 W. Elsmere Place
San Antonio 12 Texas
Sunday 6 January 1963 |
Dear Minna:
First I want to give you all the news I know -- maybe you
already know it --. We received a letter from Eleanor Johns Byrd and she
is living with Gordon until she can get herself an apartment. Also, Glenday
wrote that she is now living with Caroline and Joe in Santa Monica, Cal.
I do not know if you heard but Joe went to Santa Monica to the hospital
there to have a broken disk in his back taken care of -- the doctor goffed
[sic] and cut a nerve in his spine and he has been in a wheel chair for
over a year, mending solely [sic] they say but has to have therapy. Glenday
has a room and bath to herself so that she can get out of the way when their
friends visit them. It is very bad but that is the second or third case
that I know of. Very smart doctors! I would say. We are glad that Lois and
Arnold like it in Tennessee with their daughter. I am sure she is happy
to have them.
I am still in a dilemna [sic] about the books and am still
writing. I have to copy them on tablet paper first as I could not get much
of anywhere taking it off the books. Please excuse this paper, I have run
out of other paper. Sometimes JJJ's writing was hard to read and it is hard
to pick up his meaning. I am saving your letter copy of Mary Johns' letter
to show to Sylvia, then I will copy it and send it to you, also the clipping
that I still have.
I will make one more attempt to get something out of Winston
but if he does not acknowledge he has the books, where do you suppose they
are!
I wrote to the County Clerk of a county in Tennesssee where
the Major Johns who was in Austin was born as JJJ said their grandfather's
were brothers as I wanted to try to get the man's name but he did not answer.
Some of these people people are surely nasty about answering letters.
Am attempting to get Colonel John Johns's revolutionary war
record from the Archives in Washington, if he was in it they should have
it as they have many of them and it costs very little. Had you heard he
was in the Revolutionary War?
Also, Sister and I are confused about Mrs. Glenday. Who was
she? Grandpa Johns has written in the fron of one of the books that a Miss
Thom, some place in Scotland was her Sister, gives her address and all.
Sometimes I get stumped on a word he has written and it takes a while to
figure it out, I use dictionaries, maps, etc, sometimes. If the sentence
was not important, I would leave it out.
To date, no one had expressed great interest in having the
books, some are glad when I furnish them copies but some do not answer --
that is, in my own family.
We hope you both have been well and with best wishes.
Love
Florence
Notes:
The books she mentions are volumes of the John Jay Johns journal.
-- Susan
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