{Lutheran Theological Seminary and Waterloo College
Waterloo, Ontario} Nov. 26, 1922.
Dear Mother:
Your most welcome and interesting letter was received a few days ago and much enjoyed. I was particularly interested in the account of your visit to the old Trinity Church and of your meeting with so many old friends of former days. Glad you had the opportunity to attend this celebration and that you enjoyed it so well. Politically I was also interested in the Democratic success in Catawba County and in the election of Cousin George Bast to the office of sheriff held by his uncle for so many years. I have no doubt Uncle [?] Coulter is rejoicing. He was always such a strong Democrat. Since I wrote you last winter has set in strong. For the last couple days it has been snowing off and on in fine flurries and has been very cold. There is not enough snow as yet for sleighing; but yesterday the boys were out tobogganing at the sand pit a good part of the day. After dinner I took Eileen up and we took a few slides down the pit. The boys were up again this afternoon, but I didn’t go with them. I took a slight bronchial cold down at Brantford last Sunday from staying in a home where they had no fire on a damp and rainy day and I didn’t want to expose myself to taking more cold before fully recovering from this one. Little Ruth has a cold of the same nature but is getting much better and Bonnie also has it. I went down to Kitchener with Mr. Berdaux today. I didn’t hear their pastor the Rev. Mr. Orzen. He was away attending a Missions-fest in Toronto and Pastor Dupernel, an old Pastor Emeritus of New Hamburg preached. He had a good
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sermon and has a fine voice, but read his sermon very slowly – a thing unusual among the Germans. I think his reading was due to his age and consequent forgetfulness. He is in his 80th year. This is my first Sunday at home for a long time, but I have no engagements as yet for the coming Sundays. I wouldn’t mind putting in a couple Sundays between this and Christmas in order to have a little extra money for that occasion. I have done very well so far this year in that regard. I think I have cleared about $175 over all expenses since the first of August. But it has all gone and I am at present rather hard up financially. However, payday is only about a week off and I think I can hang out or at least stave off creditors for that length of time. Bonnie had a letter from Max the other day. He said Mrs. I.B. had taken it into her head to go to Phil’a for the winter and that he had gone to Halifax and arranged for Mrs. Dr. Donovan to accompany her there. He said he hoped she would stay ‘put’ now for the winter as she had given him an awful lot of worry. Lynton is still in the Sanitorium at Kentville, the same town in which Max lives and likes it there and is improving steadily. I played chess this afternoon with Arthur. He beat me four games hard running and Herman beat me one. Robert and I are about equal. We have our chess club every Tuesday night in the Seminary. I generally get beaten, but now and then snatch a game. Little Ruth talks almost everything now and is as cute as she can be and as pretty as a picture. We start our Christmas examinations in the College on Wednesday of this week. All three of mine come off on Friday. We will close for Christmas on the 20th of December. I still have enough coal on hand to run a week or so, but it is rather poor coal and we can’t keep the house as warm on it as I would like. However, we are not suffering, which is something to be thankful for. Well, I will close for this time. With much love to you all, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
