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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, January-March 1943

1943-01-23 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 8

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If you want Geo to have it for several years under the terms of no rent except payment of taxes for your own good reasons, that is all right. We'd live if there was no farm to talk about. But to get no accomodation from him in return is disgusting. The estate is settled (I should have taken my $306 administrative fee and that would have given Rose & Geo about $150 less). I don't need to ever again mention buying or selling to them until you come home if that is satisfactory to you.
You are the veteran. The strain of your service will tell on you in future years. We don't even have our family started. You are missing out on war profits by being in the service. Rose can't be too slow, or else she wouldn't stand pat for only the thing that nets them the most, fairly or unfairly. Add to that that she would be a war wife except for the farm. Yes indeed, she has a lot of hard decisions to make. I was never going to write these cussed things to you if they hadn't decided to write their tale. I couldn't bear any of the deal if I thought you disapproved of me. As it is, I wish I were able to settle the whole thing so I'd never have to think again about "some day we will have it all settled". Rose probably figures you'll give Geo too good a price to get his share after the war when land is inflated value, and being you she can count on Geo getting plenty. If I say stuff like that

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8 If you want Geo to have it for several years under the terms of no rent except payment of taxes for your own good reasons, that is all right. We'd live if there was no farm to talk about. But to get no accomodation from him in return is disgusting. The estate is settled (I should have taken my $306 administrative fee and that would have given Rose & Geo about $150 less). I don't need to ever again mention buying or selling to them until you come home if that is satisfactory to you. You are the veteran. The strain of your service will tell on you in future years. We don't even have our family started. You are missing out on war profits by being in the service. Rose can't be too slow, or else she wouldn't stand pat for only the thing that nets them the most, fairly or unfairly. Add to that that she would be a war wife except for the farm. Yes indeed, she has a lot of hard decisions to make. I was never going to write these cussed things to you if they hadn't decided to write their tale. I couldn't bear any of the deal if I thought you disapproved of me. As it is, I wish I were able to settle the whole thing so I'd never have to think again about "some day we will have it all settled". Rose probably figures you'll give Geo too good a price to get his share after the war when land is inflated value, and being you she can count on Geo getting plenty. If I say stuff like that