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LOST WORDS OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
ERB Letters Section
A December 9, 1945 Letter 
to Marjorie Westendarp in Coldwater, Michigan.
(Transcribed by Bill Hillman)
This 1945 letter from ERB, on leave in Tarzana, to Niece Marjorie Westendarp in Coldwater
is on display at the Wing Museum in Coldwater, Michigan.
(Marjorie is daughter of Emma's sister, Leila)

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzana, California
December 9, 1945

Dear Marjorie:

Your sweet letter of November 24th was forwarded to me from Honolulu. Hully got a 30 day leave, and he and I flew to San Francisco November 17th, I with 45 days travel orders.

Then Hully got a 20 day assignment at an Air Post within driving distance of Los Angeles, and is still here and now waiting for a further extension to complete his work. So we were both here for Christmas, the first one I have spent with my children in eleven years; and this time there were also four grandchildren. We had a wonderful Christmas.

After Christmas, I went into the hospital for an abdominal operation -- just another hernia to add to my collection of scars. I was discharged yesterday afternoon. But as the doctor says that I mustn't fly for three weeks, I got a 30 day extension of my travel orders, and shall be here the remainder of this month.

Joan and Jack, being here, were pretty much broken up over Emma's death; but they are reconciled to it, for her condition was hopeless and she was most unhappy.  It was the only possible solution of what had become a nightmare to all of us.

Jack has two beautiful boys, really beautiful. Joan II, who is just fifteen, is five feet nine and a regular Conover model. She is gorgeous. Joan's Mike , who is ten, is a handsome boy and all boy. He was one of the the sweetest dispositions I have ever encountered.  I don't have to add that I am very proud of my children and grandchildren.

Joan's divorce will become final fin May. She married heel, and was loyal to him for much too long. She is a grand girl. Hully is a captain in the Air Force, and Jack is working at an essential job in Warner Brothers art department.  He would rather be in the Army, but with a wife and two babies he will stay out until drafted.

Skee looked me up when he came to Honolulu. He is a fine boy. I was very proud of him. He gave me the first Coldwater news I had had in years. "Nobody ever tells me anything."

It was good to have a letter from you, dear; and I hope you get around to writing another at least before 1947.

My love to you both,
Always,
(sig) Ed

Edgar Rice Burroughs' 
Wartime Autograph Book Series 
1944: September/October/November 
www.erbzine.com/mag27/2795.html
For more than a quarter of a century, I have been giving autographs. 
Thousands of them. And I have never asked for one. 
The worm has turned. He wants your autograph. Thanks! 
 Edgar Rice Burroughs 
United Press, Honolulu
THE COLDWATER REFERENCE
ERB's Great Nephew: George "Skee" Parker

September 21, 1944
P.F.C. Robert H. Lang - U.S.M.C. - Route I, Box 237 - Lake Charles, La. | Don Jackson's driver
October 2, 1944
1st Lt. George "Skee" Parker - USMC - Coldwater, Mich - Your Great Nephew
1st. Lt. George R. Strimbech??? - USMC - 325 Wilson Ave, Morgantown, W. Va.
LOST WORDS OF ERB :: ERBzine 0219
LETTERS and FILES SECTION
ERBzine 0214: Lost Words
ERBzine 0392: Lost Words IIa
ERBzine 0440: Lost Words IIb
ERBzine 0441: Lost Words III
ERBzine 0406: The McWhorter Louisville Collection
ERBzine 0429: Lost Words IV
ERBzine 0717: Lost Words V
ERBzine 0719: Lost Words VI
ERBzine 0866: Lost Letters VII
ERBzine 0946: Lost Letters VIII
ERBzine 0947: Lost Words of ERB IX
ERBzine 0997: Letters from Hulbert at ERB, Inc.
ERBzine 2081: ERB Fan Letters
ERBzine 2744: To Daughter Joan - 1936-41

ERBzine 1636: More from the '30s
ERBzine 2745: To Joan - 1941
ERBzine 2746: To Joan - 1942
ERBzine 2747: To Joan - 1943
ERBzine 2748: To Joan - 1944
ERBzine 2749: To Joan - 1945
ERBzine 0913: Correspondence I: To Jane and Jack 

ERBzine 0914:Correspondence II: To Jane and Jack 
ERBzine 1039: Pre-WWII Letters
ERBzine 1524: Post WWII Letters
Wartime Letters from ERB: The War Years
1940 Letters
1941 Letters  ~  1941 Letter Highlights
1942 Letters 1942 Letter Highlights
1943 Letters  ~  1943 Letter Highlights
1944 Letters  ~  1944 Letter Highlights
1945 Letters  ~  1945 Letter Highlights
ERBzine 4127: Dec 9, 1945 to Marjorie in Coldwater
ERB's WWII Letters to Caryl Lee Burroughs/Chase

ERBzine 1638: 1942-1943
ERBzine 1639: 1943-1944
ERB WWII Files

ERBzine 1127:  ERB Wartime Files v.1: Marital Front
ERBzine 1128:  ERB Wartime Files v.2: Articles
ERBzine 1129:  ERB Wartime Files v.3: Laugh It Off
Thomas Metcalf Correspondence - 1911-1913

ERBzine 2832
ERBzine 2833
ERBzine 2834
ERBzine 2835
ERBzine 2836
Laugh It Off! Columns ~ Written as WWII Columnist

1941: ERBzine 1129 
1942: ERBzine 1754
1945/1946: ERBzine 1755


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