Emma to Joe, 10 December 1918
Maple Lane 10th Dec. 1918 My Dear Joe, I guess I've time for a little letter before I start to make our daily pie. Doris wrote Sunday and was slightly vexed when she got home from school last night to find it had not been mailed. Beulah got your letter yesterday. We'll send the skates today and maybe the boots too - you took 'em apart last Spring to wear the boots to football practise - remember? I'd think the boots are too small for you now. But if we can make a decent parcel of them we'll send them along. We are having fine, clear, frosty weather here now. It ought to spoil "the flu". But there isn't snow enough for sleighing. Last Wednesday Papa took me over to Stainton's to a Ladies' Aid meeting in the cutter and Friday night Beulah went to Oshawa station to meet Uncle Anson (C.N.R. express trains won't stop at Solina now.) with the cutter - but it was just about as good wheeling and the roads are quite bare now. Pap...