Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Title

Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Creator

Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958

Identifier

WWP23089

Date

1920 April 20

Description

Letter from Jon Bouman to his family.

Source

Gift of William C. and Evelina Suhler

Subject

Germany--History--1918-1933
Correspondence
Berlin, Germany

Contributor

Rachel Dark
Denise Montgomery

Language

English

Requires

PROOFREADING

Provenance

Evelina Suhler is the granddaughter of Jon Anthony Bouman and inherited the family collection of his letters from the years of World War I. She and her husband gave the letters to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum in 2013.

Text

Hotel Adler, Berlin
April 20, 1920

Dearest,

Yours dated the 12th came on the 19th and one of the 15th came today the 20th; so you see how irregular the mails are.

Dinna fash yersel’ about the cheques from the office; they are all righ. I thought I had it all explained to you very fully. You are getting all my salary, which is paid fortnightly, in advance, thus: --

on april 1 – pound 21.13.4 for first half of april
“ 15- do “ second “ “
May 1 - do “ first half of may
“ 15- do “second ” “

So you see it’s all as plain as a pikestaff and I am sonly sorry you should have felt bothered about it. What I want you to do is to run the house on this and pay all expenses because it is all I have (until I get my salary re-adjusted) and I also want you to save ten guineas out of it by the end of May to pay my life insurance which falls June the final week of June. I am sure I told you about the sending of cheques from the office? Although you say that “I do not know what arrangements you made at the office”, I confess I am somewhat at a loss to understand it. But I hope you see it now.

Next time you write, let me know about the letter you say was censored. Do you mean it was “opened by censor” or actually censored by striking out certain words or passages? And censored by whom? One of your print letters was opened by the German censor and resealed with an official strip of paper in the usual fashion. But only one, the others had not been opened.

You say you sent two letters to the Central, well I only got one but will go again and see if they can find the other one, after the strike is over at that place. The Moloneys were all lunching at the Adlon today, as there isn’t a scrap of food to be had at the Central, and Mrs. Moloney told me she had had to make the beds and do the bedrooms herself, as there was no service!

Another French Camard today, Thanks very much for reforwarding.

With love to the dubs,
Ever thine,
Jack.

P.S. Your letter of the 15th enclosed. The Ruffer Company literature, received OK. Thanks!

Original Format

Letter

To

Bouman Family

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1920-04-20.pdf

Citation

Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958, “Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family,” 1920 April 20, WWP23089, Jon Anthony Bouman Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.