Sunday, November 15, 1953

November 15, 1953

411 Bonnie Dr

El Cerrito, Calif.

Dear Father & Mother

It’s about 8:30 this Sunday evening and I’ll pen a few lines before it’s time to go to bed. Jean says she is going to write a letter telling about the wedding, reception & trip south so I’ll omit saying anything about them except to note that everything seemed to come off in a very satisfactory way and the honeymoon trip was quite enjoyable. The weather was a little on the cloudy side but that’s to be expected this time of the year.

This evening so far we have been out and returned some dishes that were used in the reception and visited the Knocks briefly. We left rather early though since tomorrow is a back-to-work day and the end of the week after the return from Santa Barbara was again somewhat strenuous getting things somewhat in order in the house. Rev Knock said that he had written a letter to you regarding events so you doubtless had heard some of what transpired from him. They were at the reception so had the chance to meet Jean’s folks.

In the mail which had accumulated while we were gone was a notice from the railway express agency of a package which I would guess was the one from U. Carl. The office is closed on weekends so we will have to get it sometime during the week; however it has arrived safely. We also had a letter from Clarice and a gift waiting for us on our return.

As you gather we are now established at 411 Bonnie Dr albeit disorganizedly yet. The only thing to complete this purchase is for us to receive back the deed from the county recorded which should occur shortly. This afternoon I signed the papers selling the house in Seaview so that should be complete this next week; it will be a relief to have these all finally complete. Friday night was the first real story of the season here (we were driving home in part of it) and I wondered if it could have been enuf to blow sone shingles off at 931 Seaview. I looked around tho and everything seemed o.k. so maybe it didn’t do any damage. Shortly before I bought it quite a few got blown off in a storm so I wondered if it would have happened again.

Jean has just reminded me (again) that I didn’t get around to getting addresses for 3 wedding invitations so in case Uncle Milton’s, Uncle Serenus’s or Under Verner’s wonder why they didn’t receive any that was the reason. They probably wouldn’t have been to interested anyway I’d guess.

This is all for now.

With love

C.P.