Letters by Wesley Weekes Leonard

Letters written by Wesley to his father
DateHighlights
Aug 28, 1960 "...I wonder if you have written to Rob't Park regarding his letter asking if he could come and see you in Delhi. It would be too bad to leave him in the dark regarding our movements. I spoke of it in talking to Alice, thinking aloud that Rob't would be welcome to come down to my neck of the woods, but Alice thought he was far too much the tenderfoot, being so used to the so called 'high standards' of living as measured by the number of private bathrooms and served meals to which one might have access."
Sept 24, 1960 "You do not discourage me, by suggesting that the Bush House will not be done this year, and that I shouldn't bother about you, because I know that you always talked as if the worst was about to happen."
Oct 6, 1960 "I guess I was too anxious when I wrote the last letter, ---it is just that now that practically ALL my savings are gone-----and there was nothing to show for it but a partly finished house and no evidence that either it would be finished, nor my expenditures recovered,----that I could not but reflect that after all I would never have started this financially unrepaying project for myself, that it was purely on your account that I started this years activity."

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