April 28, 1930
Dear Maybell,
We are in Airland
Canyon and will go through Malad tomorrow.
We have been in the mountains for two weeks. There has been lots of storm and we are
getting along fine so far.
I hope you are
having a good time and has the folks told you how foolish you are for going
with the old gray head and old enough to be your father. If they do give you advice, think it over
girl. But be careful you know me better
than they do. I taught you to care and
to love and how I was true blue to you and always will be. And why because you were so good and kind to
me, the sun shines forever when I was with you.
Then I could look in to your eyes and they seemed to say I love you
better than words can tell. But for all
of that girl, many thanks for the hours I spent with you. And don’t forget you promised me one more
night with you.
You taught me how
to love you. Now teach me to
forget. I wish I could be there
Wednesday night to see you home safe.
But I will think of you and pray for you.
Well how is
everybody there. I hope they are
fine. Sweetheart if you care to write to
me, you can send it to Grace, Idaho in care of Guy Robbins. We will be there in ten days. If no bad luck hit us when we get to Dayton,
I will drop you a few lines and let you know how we are getting along. That will be the next town we stop at. Once again, I say I love you dear. And I always found time for you and to help
you because you appreciate it. You will
be in my dreams
tonight, Love.
With love to
you and you alone, as ever, Bert
Sunday Night,
May 4, 1930
Dear Maybell,
We are at Dayton
tonight and it is raining but we are all well.
I hope you are.
We will be to the
end of the trail by next Sunday and I will be glad. And when I get there, I will have more time
to write and think of what to tell you.
I wish I was there tonight to hear the songs we both love so well. And to say once again I love you dear
because you taught me to.
Say girl if you
don’t like to read the kind stuff I write just throw it in the fire.
There isn’t any
news to tell you only that the mountains are all in bloom with the sweetest
flours and there are so pretty. How is
all the folks down this?
Say, wasn’t it
funny how we met and taught one another to love each other, to care like we
did. But some time I will come back and
you can tell me all over again.
I love to hear
you say I love you dear, and then kiss me and then we build the furture. For
you and some one else, but never mind girl, we was happy and had lots of
pleasures out of it and we never will forget.
Say if all these
words aren’t spelled write, just put a mark on them and sent them back, I will
do better next time.
Some one will
share your dreams and some one cares, and some one cares a lot. I will pray for you Dear and ask that the
angels watch over you till we met again.
Love to you and you alone,
Bert
May 14, 1930
Dear Maybell,
I received both
of your letters and was glad to get all the news. I received one the 9 and the other on the
12. I was glad to get all the home
news. But sorry to hear of Sister
Berlin death. And about the boy that got
hurt. I enjoy reading your letters and
to note that you are having a good time and that you had such a lovely program
Sunday. Yes, the girls came with Mrs.
Robbins last Saturday, they are going to stay for a little while and then I am
going to take them to Twin Falls. Rena
is going to work about the 15 of June. Ruth passed in her grade in school and
Rena did to. They don’t like it over
here very much, so Lea wants them to come and live with her for the summer, so
she got Rena a job.
Yes, I guess
Hogs still has enough to say about us, but that don’t go very far with me. Are what anyone else have to say, only
you. I don’t want anyone to hurt your
feelings.
I am sorry that
Coleman and Parker had trouble and that they had to bring you into help settle
it. But I remembered you that night and
felt for you and I know how you hate trouble.
If the world had
more folks in it like you, Dear, it would be better off. And when you want to tell your trouble to any
one, tell it to me and you know that no one else ever on what you tell me, and
that a lot I wouldn’t be like some folks can’t be trusted. I have been true blue to you so far and
always will be. No matter whoms you
are, where you are. I will still be true
to you, Dear. The things you taught me
and I love you for it.
I would like to
talk to you again and renew the book once more.
When I see you again, Maybe we can.
Because no one knows the happy hours we spent but you and I. Although you
said that an office girl didn’t amount to much, but you do and you are not like
some I know. Well be true to yourself
and to whom you love best.
And I will
remember you when you are in deep thought, and think of you every night. And asked that the angels guard the way when
you are out alone and see you home safely.
I will say good
night to you dearest. Love and best
wishes, Bert.
P.S. I am going to
work for Mr. G.W. Robbins next week.
May 23, 1930
Dear Maybell,
Well I have thought
of you a lot the day or two and wondered why the Bishop called on you to help
to settle trouble between Coleman and Parker but when you see me you can
explain to me just what was the trouble and why they wanted you to help out. It is to bad when people can’t live in a
little town like that without having so much trouble. But the world is full of that kind of
trouble. There ought to be more folks
like you in the world and I don’t think there would much of any kind of
trouble. Although you are an office girl
and have a terrible disposition, that don’t spell much in your case. It is the kind of a girl you are that makes folks think the
world and all of you. The service you
render and the manner in which you give it.
No, I won’t get
tired of the town gossip or reading your letters. I enjoy the news you tell me in them. Yes, 50 years is a long time to live
together. But it is sure nice when they
can and be happy all that long while.
I hope they don’t
have trouble to the dances, in Acequia
anymore and that they can have a good time and enjoy themselves.
I hop you have a
good time. Yes, Dear, When I return
again, you and I can complete the book we have written and no one will ever
know that book but you and I. No you
have anything to worry about, the world is yours or the big part is; when you cry you alone and when you smile the
world smiles with you. I don’t think it
will to long before you see me that is if you want to see me because when I go
to Twin Falls, I will stop in Acequia a few days. There isn’t much news to tell you about this
part of the country. I don’t know to
many folks yet. Yes, Dear, I will
remember you always just like you was my own.
That is if you care for me to, and I asked that the angels guard the way
when you are alone.
With lots of love, Bert
Grace, Idaho
July 4, 1930
Dear Maybell,
I received your
ever welcome letter Thursday the 1st and glad to get it. I enjoy reading your letters to get some of
the news from home.
I got a letter
from Lea the same day, they are going to Logan and go through the Temple, they
will go with the Minidoka Stake excursion.
The Girls are going to, and I am sure glad that they can go now and be
sealed to one another before it is too late.
It will be nice for the girls to be baptized for the dead.
I did not know the
newlyweds that were married in Rupert but they will get married and I guess it
is all right to if they but can live happily together forever after.
Yes, Mr. and Mrs.
Miller was here for two days. The lady
friend did not come up here. She went to
Soda with another friend from Rupert. I
will tell you how when I see you again.
Yes, the few
nights that I were there will be long remembered by me and I think by you too.
So many sweet thoughts written in the book.
Do you remember
the Monday night we sat in the car and the frogs and on both sides. The night was lovely and will never be forgotten.
Yes, it is nice
to travel but She is not in my class. Do
you think that it is for all good that she travels or is it to just be some one
big so she can tell us how grand it all it.
Well it is so nice to be some one don’t you think.
Well this is enough
lonesome, I don’t know whether it is worth the money or not. Well sweet memories forever, good night. Best Wishes, Bert
The
night was quiet, and we
sat
in the shadow of the trees,
And the moon rose in the East,
But
not quick enough to see
I
told you a story that
Someone told me,
And
you turned your back on me
And
wished you could have vanished into space.
Oh,
But think of the many many
Happy
hours it meant. To you and I.
July 14, 1930
Dear Maybell,
I received your
letter that you wrote on the 6, on 12, and I hope you got the let I sent on the
5, I gave it to a sheep man that was going to Logan to post. Yes, I was up here alone quite awhile. Robbins came back on the 7 of July. And Lea and Forrest came on 8, they came from
Logan up here to get me and I went back with them and went through the Temple
on 9. It was so grand, the Spirit that
was there and the wonderful talk that was give. And If I got it right there
will be some thing happening to this world that we live in before too long if
the people don’t live a little different.
And when I see you, I will tell you some of the things they told us
if you care to hear it. I came back the same day the 9 and have been
alone since then till tonight and have thought a lot about some things. And I will be alone again. We have sold the lambs and Mr. Robbins will
go with them. Yes, it has been hot here
too, but we have had lots of rain. Some
real ones that wash the hills away and I wonder sometimes if it won’t take me
down to. So much for that.
Your letters
interest me, yes the happy time is when some one bring me a letter from
you. I enjoy the things you tell me in
them and I read them over and over. Burn
them, no I can’t, I think too much of you to burn one of them and don’t let
your mind run that way. You know they are interest to me and to get the news
from home. I wish that I were there some
time to spend some of the lonesome hours with you in the moon light. You know some of those rides in the moon
light that we enjoyed so much. And then
go home and listen to the record you taught me love to love you and now teach
me to forget. I wish I were there
tonight to listen to some of the records that Harrae played to you the night
you wrote this letter. By the way, Tell
Harrae that his dog is going to make a good one or I think so.
Think of me, why
you think of me so often but dear, I know you can’t help thinking of me
sometimes and I know there is a warm spot in your heart for me. And you know I care for you a lot. Thanks for the clippings from the paper. Thanks for you letters. Thanks for your company and the hours you
spent with me and I hope some day I can pay you for it all. I have enjoyed so much. I have been a better man since I met you. Thanks again for your kindness and your
company and I hope I will have the pleasure of enjoying a few more nights with
you. I have something I want to tell
you. Take more of my time. My time is
your time, when you are writing to me and I love to hear from you and then
think of it all over again.
How I sat and read
the story in those pretty dark eyes. But
what does it all mean. Your happiness
and some one else. You had better burn
this letter if someone would see it there would think I had it bad, they don’t
know the story like we do. Read this
card I am sending and see if you can get anything out of it. Well, dear, sweet dreams and a good night.
With best wishes to you,
Bert
August 4, 1930
Dear Maybell,
I have just
received your letter that you wrote on the 18th of July and was sure glad to
get it. So you can see that someone is
playing their part in keeping me from getting your letters. They have went to the valley about every
other day and would be gone some times for two or three days to a time. You know how I mean. But nevertheless I sure was glad to hear from
you and to get some of the town news.
And to know that you were having such a good time with your M.I.A.
meeting. But be good now after all this
years. Some one will come and then you
happy days will be forever them and think what it mean to you and some one
else, it won’t be to long before there will be a change in this world if I get
things right and when I see you I will tell you what I mean. I haven’t been any where for about three
weeks so don’t know very much about what’s going on in the world. But from the talk of Robbins, things must be
getting awful down here in some of the wards.
But do you know that it is sure to come true that the very best of us
will fall if we are not careful and watch our step. Yes, they will get married and it is all
right with me. Yes, I suppose people
would think we were of in the head all right if they knew half of what we think
or say some times about our selves or about your future, they would say that I
was crazy to build yours for you and more for myself. But we know the book, they don’t. I wish I were there some time to enjoy some
of the Stake Meets, some times. There
was a Rupert boy picked up here in the
hill the other day, not far from where my camp is for stealing cattle and was
put under $5000 bond. So if it isn’t
one thing it is another. Well I you
see your before long I guess about the last of the month. I just want one more talk with you and to
renew some things. No matter what folks
think, what we think is not evil is it.
And that is what is in most folks minds these days.
I am using a rock
for my writing table and it isn’t very smooth.
Well there int’ any news up here in the hills, so be good and I will
remember you as if you were my own. And
Think of you often. And share your
dreams and care for you a lot, Dear.
You will have a
chance.
With the Best
of wishes for you, as ever, Bert
August 23, 1930
Dear Maybell,
I received letter
all O.K. and was sure glad to hear from you once more. I enjoy so much to get a letter from
you. The summer will soon be gone and
one more year will soon close up and I wonder what the next one will bring for
you. I hope happiness and pleasure for
you, but we will wait and see. I
suppose Eva is happy now and has nothing to pine over now and I suppose that
her mother is just as happy about it as the girl. And I am glad for her myself. As she thought she was going to be left. Well so much for that.
Well, Dear, do
answer this note as I will be home before long and then I would like to talk to
you if I may and spend one more night of happiness.
Best wishes to you, As
ever, Bert
January 25, 1957
Dear Son,
I promised to
write you a letter. Well here I am at
it. I hope you are well and happy. I hope you don’t freeze your ears too bad
because they can get mighty hard to take of if you do.
Well, Mom has just left to go back to work and Bud has just
gone home. He hasn’t had any work all
week. He don’t have time to do any thing
but take care of Mom and the baby. Well
about the cows and the chores. I am
milking 6 and got 16 head of young thing to feed. So I am busy all day. Well about myself. I have some days good and some days not so
good. I hope I can hold up another year,
until you come home. But don’t worry
about things here because I will get along all right. We had a good crop of beans last year, but we
haven’t gotten all the money yet. They
are slow to pay this last year. But I
guess we will get it. The winter is
quite cold, has been down to zero quit a lot of the time. And we have some snow. I guess Mom told you all about the news in
the ward in her letter.
How do you like
the people up there. I hope fine. I suppose you have time to read a lot. And then pray to your Father in Heaven often
so you can have his Spirit to prompt you, and I am sure that being prayerful
will help, you in making a success of your labors. I ask the Lord every day to help you and keep
you from sickness or anything of an evil nature. I hope you will have a chance to talk often
in all your meetings. By doing is the
way we learn.
Well Bud has just
came in with the Bean check from Woodruffs which I am very glad. I don’t know when I will get my from Campbell
Co.
Well I guess I had
better go down to Bud. We feel bad the
way things turned out with them. I will
write you again after while and let you know all about the cows and the stock
before I sell any of them.
I ask the Lord to
bless you with all is choicest blessing.
And hope you be well. I remain
as ever, your Loving Father.
W. A.
Stevenson.
I hope you can read
this. I am such a poor speller, as you
will see.
February 7, 1958
Dear Son,
Just a line tonight
to tell you not to fret about home. We
will get along. We’ll here a little and
when you get home we will talk about it then.
I am so happy that you love the work so well. And that you have a testimony of the Lord
work. And that you are doing so
well. Everything is going along all
right a home. I think Mom is sending
the money for your car in the morning.
And I hope it is a good one. And
three weeks will soon go.
So good luck to you
and ask the Lord to bless you always. I
think of you all the time and wonder how you are.
Best wishes to you,
Dad
Friday Note
Dear Bert,
Received your
letter and glad you got back to your Base O.K.
It sure is cold here again today.
It is trying to storm a little, a good rain would help a lot. We have had so much cold wind.
We got our alfalfa
and pasture seed in yesterday and got the water this morning to water it. We have to fire it up in the morning. Have most of bean ground ready to irrigate
when we can get the water. Bud and Daddy
worked about 5 hours over to church farm last night. Daddy has to go back to finish harrowing when
they finish the plowing.
Mel is sick. He went to Doctor yesterday. Back again today and has to go to Burley
Hospital Tuesday and Thursday for x-rays and tests. Doctor thinks it might be an infection of
some kind. He is starting out similar to
what he was 4 years ago.
May and Charles
went to temple today with Beth and Dean. We took care of the kids. Aunt Em and Uncle Charl and Lula and Lamar
went with them. We would like to have
gone, but couldn’t very well.
Mother and dad
neither one expect any thanks for what we have done for our family.
We told you when
you married Elaine, if that was your choice, we could accept her in the
family. How well she fits in will depend
entirely on two people, Bert and Elaine.
Your marrying her didn’t hurt nearly as much as it did to have you treat
3 little girls and their mother as you did after you came home. Just why you disliked them so much I couldn’t
figure out. True we gave them a building
spot but you and Bud could have had the same.
Of all the family you should have been the most tolerant after two years
of studying the Gospel, but you have been the least tolerant with all the
family. True, we have our faults and
perhaps don’t run with the in laws, but never the less we have tried to provide
you with a home and necessities and in doing so have deprived ourselves of some
things in order for you all to have the best we could afford. After you got home too often we were wrong
and you were always right, as to how well your family will fit in again depends
on two people, Bert and Elaine, you know the statements, you have made, so now
they will have to be recalled before we can do anything. There is no difference in our love for Mae’s
and Bud’s family. Each have made a place for themselves, we gave you a chance
last spring to help on the farm and work out too, but that wasn’t your
choice. Had you followed our suggestion
then, we could have done something about your draft, as it was there was no
choice. Your decision worked a hard ship
on us last year, but hope and pray we will have health and strength enough to
see this year though and hope things will work out for the best for you.
Hope you don’t
feel offended with that I have said. We
think just as much of you as the other kids and will still help you all we can
if possible.
Saturday, They
took Mel to the hospital this morning between 6 and 7. We are going to Burley now to see him. Doctor
Trehune is out over week end but Kelly too think it is caused from an infection
and not from his heart. Although it is
affecting his heart. We’ll let you know
every few days how he is. He couldn’t
walk this morning and his hand are starting to swell.
Write and let us
know how you like your schooling.
Love,
Mother and dad
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