Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family
Title
Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family
Creator
Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958
Identifier
WWP23136
Date
1927 July 29
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
(Moist heat, and a 28 Zimmerstrasse
thunderstorm here today) Berlin Thursday evening
Dearest;
Many thanks for your cheerful letter; the enclosure is of no importance, as you rightly concluded. I went to see Edwin Wilcox today and both he and his sister (who acts as his assistant) send their very kindest regards. I had a long talk with them both, and they wanted to know all about the family and also about the Bacons. He has a very nice office, but lives in rooms some distance away: he says he would like a flat but cannot get one for love or money, and he tells me the German Foreign Office, to which foreign correspondents had appealed, refused all assistance, so the old stagers who had bought premises during the inflation period, are well off.
Please thank Betty for her letter. Mention of pineapple would make a German’s saliva flow because that is regarded as quite a delicacy here. Bananas are about the same price, and cherries are very fine.
Bill’s Poly: report seems very encouraging. I suppose it would be too much to expect success at the first try. I wonder if you could speak to David Thomoon about him, as I believe you once thought of doing. I feel I can do but little from here. I shall be much interested too in hearing further progress about Mary’s future.
We are kept very busy here about the prospective German flights to America. There are so many complications about it that it is hard to get out the facts. Lochner’s time is fully occupied with that subject alone. The office youth has returned from his holiday so that there is more routine help here. It is now getting on towards midnight, but I had the morning off and we shall soon get a working schedule of some sort.
I may be moving soon to the Continental Hotel which is under the same management as the Adlon although a little less in magnificence. I really don’t need all this luxury and the Adlon charges 22 shillings per day for room alone. It isn’t worth it – to me at least. I may change unless the Adlon consents to reduce the price a bit. With apologies for a bad pen, and all my love to you all – Dac.
thunderstorm here today) Berlin Thursday evening
Dearest;
Many thanks for your cheerful letter; the enclosure is of no importance, as you rightly concluded. I went to see Edwin Wilcox today and both he and his sister (who acts as his assistant) send their very kindest regards. I had a long talk with them both, and they wanted to know all about the family and also about the Bacons. He has a very nice office, but lives in rooms some distance away: he says he would like a flat but cannot get one for love or money, and he tells me the German Foreign Office, to which foreign correspondents had appealed, refused all assistance, so the old stagers who had bought premises during the inflation period, are well off.
Please thank Betty for her letter. Mention of pineapple would make a German’s saliva flow because that is regarded as quite a delicacy here. Bananas are about the same price, and cherries are very fine.
Bill’s Poly: report seems very encouraging. I suppose it would be too much to expect success at the first try. I wonder if you could speak to David Thomoon about him, as I believe you once thought of doing. I feel I can do but little from here. I shall be much interested too in hearing further progress about Mary’s future.
We are kept very busy here about the prospective German flights to America. There are so many complications about it that it is hard to get out the facts. Lochner’s time is fully occupied with that subject alone. The office youth has returned from his holiday so that there is more routine help here. It is now getting on towards midnight, but I had the morning off and we shall soon get a working schedule of some sort.
I may be moving soon to the Continental Hotel which is under the same management as the Adlon although a little less in magnificence. I really don’t need all this luxury and the Adlon charges 22 shillings per day for room alone. It isn’t worth it – to me at least. I may change unless the Adlon consents to reduce the price a bit. With apologies for a bad pen, and all my love to you all – Dac.
Original Format
Letter
To
Bouman Family
Files
Collection
Citation
Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958, “Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family,” 1927 July 29, WWP23136, Jon Anthony Bouman Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.