15 Frederick Street
Naugatuck, Connecticut
Dear little Girl:-
Thank you ever so much for the Special and the Special Delivery package which were waiting for me when I came home from Church - this A.M. I am not going to open the package until to-morrow morning - but I will confess - I did peek into the card - and I like it so much. I am writing to-night for I knew you would like to know that they came in fine time for my birthday.
We had a lovely pre-Thanksgiving Service to-day - when the envelopes were given out. Three of my class have been made teachers - Mr. and Mrs. Case and Mrs. Noyes. So the teacher proposition is solved. Papa is writing to Filene's - while I am writing to you. I sent for a size 49 - in my new dress - It came -yesterday and fits perfectly. so I wore it to-day. After we had our lunch - Papa and I drove to New Haven - with the Thanksgiving Donation for the Old Folks Home. Somebody donated a can of Dutch Cleanser. Papa said that was to get the old ladies - nice and clean for Thanksgiving. Wasn't that a queer donation? The whole thing reminded me of the times when you and Papa took around the donations.
They certainly do very little for charity in this Church. After we left the Home - we drove back to Naugatuck and had our supper and listened to the Radio. Papa says that in the olden days - the officers and crew on the ship that we seized - the ship that had the U.S. Flag - painted on her sides would have been guilty of piracy and would have been hanged without delay. Things certainly have changed. Papa says that they probably gave the Officers - the third degree - and found out plenty - but they were not shot hanged.
Will close now - Papa is ready to post this letter - and then to bed. Good-night - from the bunch that is all a-twitter.
Your loving
Mamma.
Nov. 16, 1941.
P.S. The Womanless Wedding was one of the finest things I have seen in a long time. Dan was fine - looked enough like Betsy to have been she. Beautiful costume - big hat and lovely wig. He wore his glasses - that helped the disguise.
M.
G. B. Heffernan,
Credit Department,
Wm. Filene's Sons Company,
Boston, Mass.:
Sir;-
This is in reply to a letter dated October 31, signed by A. A. McDonald, Asst. Credit Manager -- but which purports to be in reply to a letter of mine dated October 18. My letter however was written to you personally; therefore I am not corresponding with Mr. McDonald, but with you.
Your (Mr. McDonald's) letter of October 31 adds absolutely nothing to what has already been written. It repeats the obstinate assertion about bills that you claim to have sent to my daughter. Really I don't care whether you sent them or not (although I have my own opinion on the subject) -- the only important point is that my daughter did not receive the said bills, and that you insulted her by questioning her veracity.
Kindly read again my letter of October 13, especially the last three paragraphs. THE CHECK HAS BEEN IN MY DAUGHTER'S HANDS FOR A MONTH AWAITING A CORRECTLY PHRASED LETTER FROM YOU. It is still waiting.
Very truly yours,
November 15, 1941.