So today, after I got home from work, church meetings, and grocery shopping, I actually put all the groceries away before I noticed the rather large box in my kitchen. A paper on the top said, "Brad-- Please deliver to Jennie. THANK YOU!"
I was not expecting a package of any kind, but it was obviously from family, so I opened it.
The box was full of letters and cards, neatly gathered into bundles and labeled. "To/From Eunice & Gilbert (to each other)." "Letters to Alice Allred."
Oh right! I remembered that I had told Uncle Darvel that I'd be willing to read and sort through old family letters -- and here they all were!
I counted them.
503 cards and letters and a few miscellaneous things like a picture of Gilbert in a paper frame. :)
The plan is for me to go through them all, marking down things like author, recipient, locations, dates, and any significant information like where people lived or testimonies or historical events, so the history in this treasure trove is available for the family. I also plan to scan everything and have my mom help me organize it so everybody who wants will have a digital copy of this treasure.
The purpose of this blog is for me to chronicle my journey through this project, and keep the family up to date as I do, describing my finds, transcribing amusing or interesting passages, and sharing my feelings about them.
Here I go. :)
