{"id":1490,"date":"1937-01-08T01:31:17","date_gmt":"1937-01-08T07:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2014-01-08T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:48:40","slug":"happiness-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/happiness-love\/","title":{"rendered":"January 8, 1937  &#8220;Trudelchen gets such happiness out of your letters.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 8th 1937<\/p>\n<p>My dear Father and dear Sisters Lotte and Erna:<\/p>\n<p>Trudelchen gets such happiness out of your letters \u2013 she just lights up, and her eyes dance whenever she hears from you \u2013 your letters make her happier than anything \u2013 and I enjoy them too.  I must admit she makes them clearer to me when she reads them to me \u2013 for I have forgotten so much of my German that I learned as a student.  <\/p>\n<h1>I am more in love with precious Trudel every day . . .<\/h1>\n<p>But I have a surprise for you.  You can never guess \u2013 so I\u2019ll tell you.  I am more in love with precious Trudel every day in every way! She is so wholesome, so genuine, so fine.  We are very happy together.  I have just read her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/overdue-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> &#8211; or should I say her book \u2013 that we are enclosing with this.  How many pages she writes, and since I have read it all just now, I must say there is little more for me to add to what she has written.<\/p>\n<h1>How wonderful it would be . . .<\/h1>\n<p>Business has not been good, but that was no reason to postpone our happiness.  We get out of our love, pleasure and life what money can not buy. So we are rich with each other \u2013 without money.  How wonderful it would be \u2013 if things would just get better, and I could help bring you here. But one thing at a time. With God\u2019s help, the things we all want in life will come in their rightful time.  <\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1512\" style=\"width: 86px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/TTScans27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/TTScans27-76x150.jpg\" alt=\"Trudel\" width=\"76\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/TTScans27-76x150.jpg 76w, https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/TTScans27-153x300.jpg 153w, https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/TTScans27.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trudel<\/p><\/div>Should you ask me how Trudel looked <em>Sylvester Abend<\/em> \u2013 I would answer you \u2013 There was no lovelier, more beautiful little woman in the country.  Trudel was radiant in her metal cloth evening gown and red velvet jacket and cape, and Mrs. Olive McDonnell with us in Blue velvet gown and cape was also lovely.  Mr. McDonnell said his wife <em>was<\/em> the prettiest woman in town.  I agreed, that was why I imported Trudel I told him.  And beauty is as beauty does, and Trudel does everything beautifully.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><br \/>\nA Happy New Year to each of you, in which Trudel joins,<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1515\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LJG-letter-01-08-1937-sig2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LJG-letter-01-08-1937-sig2-1024x50.jpg\" alt=\"affectionately\" width=\"645\" height=\"31\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LJG-letter-01-08-1937-sig2-1024x50.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LJG-letter-01-08-1937-sig2-150x7.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LJG-letter-01-08-1937-sig2-300x14.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LJG-letter-01-08-1937-sig2.jpg 1938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Affectionately your son and brother Leonard<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Erna and Lotte are Trudel&#8217;s sisters. They remained in Germany for several years when she came to the United States.<\/li>\n<li>LJG refers to the letter Trudel wrote on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/overdue-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\"> January 7, 1937<\/a>, which was posted in this blog on the anniversary of that date.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sylvester Abend&#8221; is New Years Eve. <\/li>\n<p><em><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8th 1937 My dear Father and dear Sisters Lotte and Erna: Trudelchen gets such happiness out of your letters \u2013 she just lights up, and her eyes dance whenever she hears from you \u2013 your letters make her happier than anything \u2013 and I enjoy them too. I must admit she makes them clearer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3,5,225],"tags":[400,232,401,279],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago","category-family","category-immigrant-experience","category-letters-2","tag-beautiful","tag-german","tag-nazi-threat","tag-new-years-eve"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LJG-reverse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yA95-o2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}