Sperry B. Skilton
Amateur Radio Station
WIKKG
Watertown, Conn.
Telephone 3-12October 6, 1940
Dear Bessie:-
Thanks for the nice letter received yesterday. I really meant to write you before but the moments do fly so that I can hardly keep track of the day of the week. Last week I worked 6 1/2 hours overtime - including all day Saturday, and the week before that I worked one night till 1000 pm so you can see telephone business is good. That is besides Radio work which polishes off the rest of my time very nicely, as that is also good now.
I'm glad your radio works to your satisfaction. It sounded pretty good when I finished with it, anyway. I suppose it gets plenty of exercise "just to keep it from getting rusty."
My new stamp book came the other day, and I've been transferring some of my stamps today. I really never knew there were so many different perforations even in the 1922-1926 issue. I can still see dots & scallops before my eyes!
Speaking of stamps reminds me I saw a wonderful exhibit of Stamps in the British pavillion [sic] at the World's Fair a couple of weeks ago. A nice block of 24¢ airmail with inverted centres [sic] was displayed along with fancy cancellations of all kinds on the older stamps - rare proofs in experimental colors, histories of the U.S. in pictures on stamps. - Stamps used to illustrate bits of poetry by famous poets, and all really good! I could have stayed a whole day, as an entire room was filled with display racks, covered by stamps and protected by a glass covering. Boy what a guy couldn't do with a glass cutter! It was an international exhibit, and a lot of the stamps were foreign, so those did not interest me particularly.
Apparently, the "Little Sister" you wrote about doesn't have to take any orders from you if she doesn't feel like it, if she's larger than you as you suggest. I'd like to see her spank you sometime, just for fun, of course!
Don't you know this is a free country with free speech and free assembly still in effect? I'm surprised at you trying to break up a meeting of innocent little Democrats. What did you do, take your little sisters for the attack?
And speaking of feeling like, quote, "an infinitesimal speck of dust on the sands of time," unquote, I'm wondering just how big the little sister really is! Or didn't I read between the lines correctly? or Something!
Hope you can read this scrawl. I'm out of practice writing letters, and those crazy stamps are still going 'round and 'round.
So here's the end for now, until I dig myself out of the sands of time to answer your next. Thanks for the compliments about the radio. I'll have to remember to get a larger hat tomorrow. I would, if I wore one!
Sincerely,
Sperry.