Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958

WWP23139

1927 August 15

Letter from Jon Bouman to his family.

Gift of William C. and Evelina Suhler

Germany--History--1918-1933

Correspondence

Transatlantic flights

Rachel Dark

Denise Montgomery

Austin Shifflett

English

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.

Dearest;

    At last I have been able to cash my cheque so was able to buy you a cheque in London, enclosed, for £20 which you can put into your banking account. I wonder if you have already changed your bank to Crouch End.

    Your letter with the dividend warrant also received O.K. I will reply later. Strange news about Dora, I thought she was never going to get married, but as Shaw says, “You never can tell.”

    These flying stunts are keeping us all on hot coals. I never got anything to eat on Saturday because I was on the flying grounds all the time having bluffed my way in by representing myself as belonging to the American Embassy. I lent my umbrella to the Ambassador who was in danger of getting soaked, as I had my mac. and he had no protection at all, but he never returned it to me, the dog!

    Yesterday Sunday, I worked 14 hours. The whole staff dispersed to several watching points, so I had a pretty severe doing, too. What is needed in these cases is a special staff of aircraft experts: it is very difficult to deal with this kind of reporting.

Letter

Bouman Family