You Are All So Slow

Aug. 24, 1952

Dear Marie -

I answered your letter and I asked you to write with-in 3 days but so far I have not had any reply. I wish to thank you for the short letter I received from your little girl. I may write an answer to her letter and you can read it to her later. I am still here and may go out out-of-doors each day. The letter pleased me very much and thank your little girl for me for it was news to me.

Marie you kniw it is Lottie and Betty's birthday in a few weeks. I intend to sent them something I make for a gift. I thought that it would be as well as sending a birthday card. But it seems you are all so slow about letting me know when you receive something from me. So I was intending to wait until the social worker can mail them for me and have a return card made out. You see all the extra work for me because you don't abide by my wishes. I have explained this to the attendants and others here. I still have you package tied and ready to send. When I do write and ask you about this which I may have wrote, you don't answer. I get weary of writing the same over again.

When I write about if you can please help me about being dismissed you have never written than you will do all you possible can have you? And yet you are well educated. Do you like to ignore my writing and asking you about being dismissed? When it is my wishes that I write about why can't you consider them serious?

I thought I would copy a few lines from my cousin Anna's letter and pardon me if I have written it before. Quote "I sincerely hope you will soon be able to join your family/" Unquote. Then in another letter cousin Anna wrote in part "But, Ruth, dear now I must talk about you. I am wondering how you are and if everything turned out as you expected and wanted it to." Then in another letter cousin Anna wrote in part, "You did not say anything about your health and I have asked specifically about it in my last two letters to you. The fact that you did not say leads me to believe that you are now every much better as you spoke of soon going home. I sincerely hope that you have improved greatly and that you will be able to enjoy these nice spring days."

Now in my cousin Anna's family that are devoted to their family. What would my relatives think if they knew how I have asked you to be of help to me and especially when I may leave here and you or the other members of my family don't come for me.

Please write about Martin to me or remind Lottie.

From Mother.

P.S. This is Sunday evening and your fathr did not come here to-day.