Author: Robert Thomas
Title: Letter to unknown [presumably his parents, Charles and Iva Thomas]
Date:
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
[beginning of letter missing]
…served in the smaller of the four glasses. Then came cold cuts and a potato salad and some green vegetable salad. And the wine is again changed and served in the next glass. Of course you have more than one glass. The only way you can stop is to leave the glass full. Then came turkey potatoes, peas and a few other items I don’t remember. And again the wine is changed. Then came another salad of a green that looked a little and tasted a little like onion. It comes from Belgium but it was very good and of course the wine was again changed this time to a wine that was 24 years old. Then came the desert that was similar to pie and the drink was champagne. By this time I was not only awful full but feeling very good. Simonne and I then spent the afternoon looking Paris over. Trains was not running very regular so I caught Air France and flew to London on Friday after noon. Checked in to the Bailys Hotel. I went out to go down town and on the under ground ran in to a girl I knew. So I spent the night at her parents place in Points End. Next morning I went out to get a paper and never returned. From there I went to Edinburgh, Scotland where I brought in the New Year. I then went back to London and decided that there that I was not quite ready to go to Germany, so I went back up to Blackpool for a couple of days and then back to London. There I tangled with two Irish girls from Ireland going to Munich, Germany. So the three of us took in London, then Paris for another night and then home. I had nothing planned. I just moved when and where ever the urge directed me, and of course I know people all over so when I decided I wanted to see some place or some one I just moved on. I had a very good time and a good rest.
The weather was very cold when I got back here with about four inches of snow, but now it is warm again and the snow is gone. Everything else is about normal.
I am sending along another $900. My papers are still mixed up and they still owe me 6 months pay. Let me know if you got the $1500 and this.
Every one be good. Bob [Thomas]