Hanna’s Letter To Ed

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LETTER

East Las Vegas, JUNE 10, 11-AM

Las Vegas,  N.M.

Fri. Morn., June 10, 1910.

Dear Ed,

Well you son is now over a day old and I tell you, if you would see him you would be proud of him.  I kept saying I wanted a girl, but don’t think I would trade now.  The doctor says I took to the boy like a duck to water.

Oh he is so sweet and pretty and as fat as a little pig.  Everyone says what a beauty he is, but I tell them he is like all the rest of your children.  I suppose the children are tickled over having a little brother.  We should not be afraid at night now, as we have a man in our house.

Well now, I will have to tell you how well Minnie is getting along.  She has forgotten that she has lung trouble.  Wed. eve  she complained of the pleurisy and Della Mc was here so she said just keep heating one flannel after the other and applying them to her, so I did for about an hour and it seemed to relieve her some.  So Della left about 9:15 and said she would be back in the morn.  So it was quite a joke when she came the next morn.  The fine boy was here. She laughs and says it was her remedy that brought the boy.  The pleurisy hasn’t bothered Minnie since.

We certainly have the nicest, kindest doctor that we have ever known.  That night he just treated Minnie like a mother.  So tell our mother that she doesn’t need to worry because the doctor is just as kind as he can be and he stops in five and six times a day.  You would die if you saw the directions he wrote out for us about the baby’s food.  He told the nurse to be sure to boil everything and clean it well.  So he saw me down town yesterday and told me to watch the nurse and see that she did everything according to directions.

The nurse is a very nice old lady.  You know she isn’t a trained nurse.  The doctor doesn’t like trained nurses in a case like this.  We are just going to keep her a few days, until I get on to the way of doing.

All the people here are certainly lovely to us.  Our landlady treats us fine too.  I think we have been hearing false reports about her.  If all the folks were out here, I would never go back to Charleston again.  I am in love with this place, and Minnie would be too if she was able to be around.  I just sent the wheel chair back in time.  Just thought we would rest awhile and start out again.  So now I will have to push a buggy and chair both.

It is quite a joke about Mc Govern.  He said I wasn’t strong enough to push her, so he was going to come some day and wheel her over to old town,  he will have to wait awhile now.

Say Ed, Minnie says she is going to let you name the baby, been as she named all the girls and I would advise you to do it too.  If you don’t she has the queerest name picked out that I have ever heard.  I wouldn’t try to spell it.  It is a Spanish name, but of course, I won’t say a word to her, no matter what she calls him.

Well as I am kind of busy, will close for this time.  I will write either your or the home folks every day if I have the time.

Glad you are all well.  Love from Minnie, your son and I,

Hanna.