W.W. Bishop
Clearview Farm
Southampton, N.Y.
March 9, ‘39
Dear Jesse,
My daughter makes a terrible fuss every time I write using
single spacing and I suppose other people mind it just as much but don’t dare
speak up, so I’ll try to remember to keep the double space on. I have been
trying to write to you for a month now—but don’t worry I won’t try to write all
I’ve thought in this note. First of all, we wall want to thank you for the
grand cheese—we use it on every occasion and still wwe have a good size hunk
left—I can’t write a poem but we are enjoying it very much just the same.
Last week I had a chance to ride to Baltimore with Oyie
(Wiltshire) and spent a day with Helen—she has been having some sinus trouble
but is better now—heading south and a bit west made me think of last Spring and
wish that I was repeating my visit but guess I’ll have to stick here for the
present. Chas brought his family down for the weekend and he tells me that you
will be coming east in March and will plan to take time to come out here—we’ll
be counting on it and just let me know where you want me to meet you and I’ll
be there at the specified time. We did enjoy Cameron so much—he is a little
monkey and lots of fun. I tell you there are few girls like Justine—she is
making a man of Chas (I always said he’d grow to be a good one some day but she
is speeding the process).
Potatoes are almost gone from our farm and we are expecting
the new seed in next week and if we get a few dry days we will be plowing: are
you going to be sending any messages over the radio to the “Farmers on Eastern
LI” at plowing time this year?
Rented the other house finally—very nice people and guess I’ll
have to be satisfied with $35 a month—it is better than having the house stand
empty and will help pay some of the expense of the properties that Mother and
Dad left me; so far they have been mostly expense—there is lots of real value
in the things but they don’t pay any dividends now; just finished paying Harri
Micah this week, $865—came rather hard out of potatoes at $.72 per bu.
I wish you were a smoker—just discovered a tobacco that is
cured with Vermont maple syrup and Jamaica rum—I haven’t used a pipe for years
but this is so good that I’m back it hard as ever.
My row boat is already in the water and in commission and I
know just where the clam rakes are—all we need now is a little heat in the
water and we can go right on where we left off last Summer. I burned off all
the paint this year from the boat and have adorned her with a new coat of light
gray and green—she’s a bird. The other day I went up to Scallop Pond and tried
my luck with boots but only dug out four clams—I never could do anything till I
get in nearly to my neck.
Just to make you sore I’ll tell you that “Did” Beeman
brought us a good mess of fat long clams today and tonight we are going to have
fried crisp with crumbs in deep fat—yum yum.
Must get back to work now and be sure not to let anything
interfere with the plants to get out here next time you come east.
Love,
Bill
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