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A Lifelong Passion, letters and diary entries compiled by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko
A Lifelong Passion, letters and diary entries compiled by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko
13 year old Olga wrote this letter to her mother on December 4, 1908. Legible despite spelling errors and broken English. Olga and her sisters were more used to Russian and were never very good with English, but they always put in the effort.
The letter:
Ц. С. Четверг 1908 г. 4го Декабря
With all my heart I thank You sweetest Mama dear for Your dear little note and kiss You tenderly for it and will never through it away from me. I will trie to so do what You wrote to me in the little note. So sorry that never see You alone Mama dear, can not talk so should trie to write to You what could of course better say, but what is to be done if there is no time, and neight[er] can I hear the dear words which sweet Mama could tell me. Good-bye
God-bless You.
Kisses from Your very own devoted
daughter
Olga
Maylunas' and Mironenko's transcript of the letter:
With all my heart I thank you sweetest Mama dear for your dear little note and kiss you tenderly for it and will never through it away from me. I will trie to do what you wrote to me in the little note. So sorry that never see you alone Mama dear, can not talk so should trie to write to you what could of course better say, but what is to be done if there is no time, and neighter can I hear the dear words which sweet Mama could tell me. Good-bye.
God bless you. Kisses from your very own devoted daughter
Olga
Above: Alexandra.
Above: Olga.
