All the Letters home

Havana, 1/14/1939Today we had a visit from a professor of geography with his students around 100, but 75 % were female, can you imagine Peter making a speech for all the Spanish senoritas? He tried to make that stool he was standing on to break so he could fall in […]

Havana, 1/10/1939Today there is a big Polish America Steamer “S,.S. Pilsutsky” beside us. The chief Stewart is Danish and we were on board yesterday evening, it surely is an anthill, there is a 300 men crew and in the laundry they wash 5000 pieces a day, a good thing I […]

Havana, January 8 1939Dear Marie and Valdemar,First, we want to wish you a good and happy 39 and then thank you for the Christmas letter both the written and the printed. I made a Christmas Jumping Jack before Christmas and hung him up with a big yellow letter under the […]

Key West, Fla December 26 1938Dear friends,Today we see on the almanac that it is December 6th and we are again so far that we have to think twice, take ourselves hard in the neck and make an effort to think on Christmas mail. There is not the last bit […]

West Palm Beach, Fla 11/13/1938Dear Marie and Valdemar!Now we are here in the town with a nice sounding name and since the consul here had a letter waiting from you, I grasp again the pen even it isn’t my turn to write something but I am of course so nice. […]

Jacksonville, Fla. 10/30/1938Dear Marie and Valdemar!Many thanks for your letter which we received today from our family Moller in Miami, and he also wrote that there are 100 $ waiting for us in Miami on his bank book, so ,auf nach Miami” (let’s go to Miami).The other 100 $ which […]

Savannah, 9/28/1938Dear Marie and Valdemar!Please, excuse my remark about writer’s cramp, right after Peter went to the mail box with the letter he came back from the consul with your letter of 12 days and we thank you for it. I’m almost afraid that I have complained too strong. We […]

Savannah, September 26 1938Long live the birthday child Christian! We have forgotten to fly the flag today but we are of course so far away from Christian, so he won’t see it and you won’t tell him. Last year we drank a toast with the Danish consul on Martinique in […]

Savannah, August 25 1938Dear Marie and Valdemar,Many thanks for the last letter and please excuse that this is pushed out a little long. The reason is that in the last time we have not really known what we should do and furthermore, we still don’t know. We had decided to […]

Florida 7/5/1938At anchor in the inter coastal waterway from the southern tip of Florida to New YorkDear friends, in between nursing, diaper washing, receiving guests and going out on excursions I have now found 5 minutes to write memories to you and thank you for the 2 last letters from […]