Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Title

Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Creator

Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958

Identifier

WWP23095

Date

1920 May 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
Austin Shifflett

Language

English

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 Adlon, Berlin
May 20, 1920
(from office, 1 a.m.)

My dearest,

    Here is the good news at last! Two letters, of which enclosed are copies, arrived simultaneously today. So my salary is to be $60 per week from May 1st which at the rate of 4 dollars to the £ is Fifteen pounds per week, not bad eh?

    Collins had evidently not heard from NY, when he wrote his letter, but no doubt he will have, and your cheque will be correspondingly larger. I shall be paid at the current rate but £15 per week will be about the figure. Let me know when your next cheque comes in what it is for. You bet I am not losing any time in telling you the good news, which we shall celebrate in due course when I get back. So no more, as I am very busy, until next Sunday when we shall confab. again.
    All my love to yourself and the babes
from Jack.

P.S. how shall we be able
to make a little holiday
fund, also doctor & dentist
&c. Because honestly, I didn’t
know where the money
was to come from!
                              J.

Original Format

Letter

To

Bouman Family

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1920-05-20.pdf

Citation

Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958, “Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family,” 1920 May 20, WWP23095, Jon Anthony Bouman Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.