Clearview Farm
Southampton, N.Y.
W.W. Bishop
Jan. 25, ‘39
Dear Jess:
It seems ages since I heard from you or anything about you
but having followed you around in Cin. I know that you are one busy man and
have little time to do the things you like to do yourself. We are having real
Winter and no mistake—plenty of snow and all the ponds are frozen—it rained
Sunday and last night so that the ponds are clear—this AM the temp. was bout 35
but the wind has been rising steadily and the temp dropping steadily all day
till it seems almost like a hurricane and the temp is 24—feels like the side of
the house was not there. Guess we’ll have to have a good fire in the potato
house tonight. Pot. market is slow and priced dropped to $1.40 per cwt and acts
like it would stay there although the crop reports would indicate a higher
price. We have taken one load out of the cellar with Jimmy’s conveyor-works
swell and Levi and I can do what otherwise would take 4 men. Jim seems more and
more interested in his work at Cornell and is now planning to get a job on a big
farm in Penn for the Summer—I have advised him that there were lots of things
that a Dad could not teach a son and have encouraged his trying for a job away
from home—hope it materializes.
Alma is not taking the Winter term course at the school for
Social Work and I miss the trips to NY and the other attending excitements. Haven’t
seen Chas or family since before Xmas but have had a couple of letters from C.—Alma
is getting is auto license in Riverhead today and we expect him out Sunday to get
it—think he works all day every Sat. now—hope he brings Justine and Cameron
too.
We are having quite a time helping Bob decide between
Cornell, St. Lawrence and Middlebury for next year—guess we’ll have to take a
trip into Vermont and over to the St. Lawrence valley next Spring, stopping by
at Ithaca and let that decide if we don’t get it settled before.
Wish you would send me a tenant for the other house—aren’t
there some of your people who would like to get out of the heat in Cin. this
Summer that might be interested in a comfortable house that is situated where
the bays and the ocean are easily available?
Wish I was going to be with you again this Spring but thank
God I have no excuse like last year for getting away from home—it is wonderful
to feel alive and not afraid all the time once more.
Write when you can and if you are to be in NY let me know
and perhaps I can get in; and if you can spare an extra day, say so, and I’ll
be glad to bring you out here.
Love,
Bill
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