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Selected letter/document from 2006 "Letters of History" exhibit, Powers Museum, Carthage MO
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| Postcard 1984.001.06122 from the Powers Museum Collection, postmarked 1930. View is patio of Harold Bell Wright House, Tucson, Arizona. |
Letter written in reply to Marian Wright Powers' letter to her distant cousin Harold Bell Wright. The purpose of Mrs. Powers' letter was to invite Mr. & Mrs. Wright to stay at the Powers home should they ever be coming to Southwest Missouri. This action was prompted by a recent trip to Branson, Missouri, which had brought him to mind along with his book Shepherd of the Hills.
HAROLD BELL WRIGHT
TUSCON ARIZONAEscondico, California
October 14, 1935Marian Wright Powers
314 Euclid Blvd.
Carthage
Mo.Dear Mrs. Everett:
It was nice to have your charming letter, and Mrs. Wright joins me in thanking you for your generous invitation. I have been thinking for the past few years how much I would like to make a pilgrimage back to the Ozarks to meet some of the old friends who were so dear to me in past days but each year seems
to bring a full program of obligations of various sorts to keep me from doing the things I would somuch like to do. Every fall I think of the Ozarks and how beautiful they are after the first frost.I do not see any possibility of getting East this fall. We have, for the past year and a half, been establishing a little farm home here in Southern California. We were very fond of Arizona and enjoyed our home there but considering the under-tainty of these times it seemed best for us to retire from active work and we are old we can have our own garden vegetables and fruits and that sort of thing.
Yes, I remember your father very well - that is I remember my correspondence with him and the genealogy he compiled. You may be very thatshould we go East at any time we shall be pleased to see you.
With every good wish, I am
Sincerely
HBW X Harold Bell Wright [signature]
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