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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, September-October 1942

1942-09-17 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

concerned too. I know you know I'm not finding fault when I mention these things, I'm merely trying to be practical and business like. Geo believes what you think is right, but he may not always think that way as his experiences will be different from yours more every year. Even if he does, if anything happens to him I don't believe we'd have pleasant dealings with the rest of his family. They all do things different than we do. I think we are as good business heads as they are and that your ideas are better than Georges. I think my own as good or better than Rose's, in getting done whatever is to be done at least. Rose probably naturally didn't care about me seeming to be deciding stuff here when she's been in the family longer. But the responsibility was mine, and this house was where I happened to be living. She knew Mother depended upon me but apparently didn't realize that any priveleges I enjoyed carried that much heavier responsibilities. This sentence I hate to write, but trying to be realistic I must mention it too, that if I have to settle stuff without you, no matter what I did, they would

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concerned too. I know you know I'm not finding fault when I mention these things, I'm merely trying to be practical and business like. Geo believes what you think is right, but he may not always think that way as his experiences will be different from yours more every year. Even if he does, if anything happens to him I don't believe we'd have pleasant dealings with the rest of his family. They all do things different than we do. I think we are as good business heads as they are and that your ideas are better than Georges. I think my own as good or better than Rose's, in getting done whatever is to be done at least. Rose probably naturally didn't care about me seeming to be deciding stuff here when she's been in the family longer. But the responsibility was mine, and this house was where I happened to be living. She knew Mother depended upon me but apparently didn't realize that any priveleges I enjoyed carried that much heavier responsibilities. This sentence I hate to write, but trying to be realistic I must mention it too, that if I have to settle stuff without you, no matter what I did, they would