"Your letter was waiting for me when I came home from work yesterday noon. Was rather surprised but I always look in the mail box (or rather cigar box) every day."
In Grandpa's letter back to Grandma on August 5, he responds:
"You always want to look in cigar boxes dear so that you won't be surprised--sometimes it's hard on the heart and I don't want my little girl to have heart failure you know. Besides you can't always tell what you will find in cigar boxes, you might even find me there some night."
I did some checking and could not find any reference to a mailbox being called a cigar box. So I can only assume this was an inside joke between the two lovebirds.
TOTAL WORD COUNT SO FAR FOR THE MONTH WHICH INCLUDES 39 TRANSCRIBED LETTERS TO DATE = 31,868
