Pascal Edgar (Lora Vale's Father)

Pascal's Letters to Lora Vale:

Colville Wn Aug. 23, 1917

Mrs. Geo Smart

I am well ___ you are all well.

The morning I left your house I had not gone a half mile when a kind old german rancher overtook me going to myers falls in a buggy and he asked me to ride with him and of corse I acceped. we got to myers half past seven

I asked the agent when I could get a trane to colvill. he said I wold have to wait till half after one oclock so I just hit the ties and got to clays one minute after twelve.

I came down to town the next morning and gimie was there and I got to ride home with him. he was well I found him well and every thing alright. _____ something had caught four of my least sized chicks.

Died August 30, 1917

well I had a letter frome ginie she said they were all well and she sed they had a good rain on the 13. She also told me that rusel dun and sam smith and haskel simson were all drafted. so you see the draft got all three of her son in laws.

I also had a letter from jim mabery. he sed he was coming out here if he could ______ get loase and he sed carl edgar was going to have a sail this fall and was…

[rest of letter in pieces with some missing]

…and was coming out here and that will smallwood was coming west. she…that hasie and … were on a _____…and she sed…for them..visit will …hat and…rain…

…I will ring off so much love to all your afechanate old father by by P V Edgar

P.S. well lara g/g forgot that Durtim Salve receipt pleas tell george to…it off and sen…me with th…how to mak…

Colville Wn Aug 23 1916

My darling lara

at this date I am as well as usul hope it will find you all wll happy and harty. well my dear I got your letter a few days ago you sed you had not had a word from me since you got home. well my dear I started you and geo boath a letter a week before I got the one I am now answering. I put georges in one elvelope and yours under a separate cover so dont blame me for not writing.

well darling I was auful sorry to hear of halins ilness and also of ___ and of you felling so bad. oh what pitty you had to leave this good helthy country for you and the children were all looking so well while you were here. how is the weather down there now. cooler I hope. it is plesant up here. I sleep under three covers the most of the time it is andly hot a short while in the middle of the day

I put up 3 gallons of cherie preservs and 18 quarts of respberies and made one galon of goosebery jell and put up six quarts of huckleberries and mad one half galon of hucklebery jam. want to got to go to the huckleburry ___ again next Sunday. I want to can all of them I can before they are all gone but their will be berries for a month up there yet oh darling it would be delited to go up there an pick them they ar so large and nice. they are as large wild graps on old grandma Smart place. oh my dear how I wish you had the goosberys you caned while we were down at Colville, for I have no Idea we will ever use them.

well you just ought to see the the little fiar orchard now. we did not think it would have any fruit on it but it is just bending under the weight of those big ___ ___ ____. I went out last eavning and cut a lot of grapes and _______. some of the lower limbs and will have go and cut a lot more to ____ more of them and the three big trees in the old orchard is loaded and will have to be ____ed in a short time. some of the apple trees are full. we will have more apples than we can use, yes we cant use one forth of them.

oh darling it don't matter which way I look there is something you did that reminds me of you and you don't know how bad it makes me feel. yes you left on of your little tea spoons and I never look at it makes me think of you and then you left your clock. now my dear tell me what you paid for it and I will send you the money. tell geo that I am still looking for an answer to the long letter I wrote to him to or three weeks ago.

well I had a letter from Willie a few days ago. she was well and weights more than she ever did in her life. her weight is one hundred and 14 lbs. She sed she had got teeth and was proud of them.

well darling we have turnips large enough to eat and they are so nice and tender. we have spuds as big as your fist and they are still growing and I don't know how large they will get. dont no what they will be worth about one and a half dollars for hundred I guess.

when you get settled don't fail to let me know for I am going to send you a nice present when you get settled down again so don't fail to notify me. now I will close as I have got to write to willie. give george my love and love all of my little darlings for me. also give my regards to Mrs talor and franky and will and also to mrs King [?] and family and grover. so by by darling. write soon and give all the news and tell georg to write also.

your old father

P V Edgar

Notes On Pascal's Letters:

These letters are written in Pascal's hand with pencil and have very little punctuation/formatting. They were in a torn envelope addressed from P V Edgar Rout E3 Box 73A, Colville Wn to Mrs. George Smart, Port, Ok

Although I wanted to preserve the nature of his punctuation, for clarity, periods were added and paragraphs split where deemed applicable. Underlining represents words that are unintelligible. - Randy C. Smart

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