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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, November-December 1942

1942-12-29 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 1

817 - 19 St. S.E.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
December 29, 1942
Dearest, 
Since I can't figure exactly when you will receive this, and I want to be sure you have a special letter for our anniversary, I'll plan this letter to be that special one. It should surely arrive on or before New Years Day. 
New Year's Day is one of beginnings. There is all the store of traditions about the day that we both know so well. My Scotch grandmother Margaret Gordon Hutchison would tell us New Years Eve was the proper time for material gifts. They thought Christmas was a religious day and too holy for material, earthly exchanges. But New Years eve would come when secular matters with the renewal of friendships had a proper place. Father used to always save at least one gift to unwrap that evening. Prebyterians traditionally go to church at 11 or 11:30 in the evening and the old year is to be seen out in prayer and the new one welcomed in the same way. Then some triumphant hymn is sung. Westminster is to have such a service this year again but I'll not go probably unless I have some one who wishes to accompany me. That is in sharp contrast to drunken

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817 - 19 St. S.E. Cedar Rapids, Iowa December 29, 1942 Dearest, Since I can't figure exactly when you will receive this, and I want to be sure you have a special letter for our anniversary, I'll plan this letter to be that special one. It should surely arrive on or before New Years Day. New Year's Day is one of beginnings. There is all the store of traditions about the day that we both know so well. My Scotch grandmother Margaret Gordon Hutchison would tell us New Years Eve was the proper time for material gifts. They thought Christmas was a religious day and too holy for material, earthly exchanges. But New Years eve would come when secular matters with the renewal of friendships had a proper place. Father used to always save at least one gift to unwrap that evening. Prebyterians traditionally go to church at 11 or 11:30 in the evening and the old year is to be seen out in prayer and the new one welcomed in the same way. Then some triumphant hymn is sung. Westminster is to have such a service this year again but I'll not go probably unless I have some one who wishes to accompany me. That is in sharp contrast to drunken