1926 Andrew J. Foster Letter to Son Cloyd: April 12
1818 Rosevelt Avenue
Yakima Washington
Well Cloyd, your letter of the 6th came to me this morning and I have had my dinner and it is now time to ____.
You say you had put off answering my letter ’till you were most ashamed to. So I will say in a case like that I will say if you never do anything worse than that, that you have my forgiveness and I believe our Great Father will – yet with the little time that I have taken to recon on the time it does seem a little long. But I’ll just add , but I have not forgotten you… you… for when your picture was not in my trunk, it was ever the same as…
… now in a place where I can see it any time. Probably you have heard that I bought Duke a place, 13 18 Rosevelt Avenue, Yakima. I paid $900 for it, cash and taken a mortgage of $600 which would give him $300 and three years to pay for it in.
But I was to have a permanent home then I put up money to build the sewer, about $80 and I still have hopes of getting it some day – though it may be like others – forgiven.
I do hope you will get the road.
As to my coming out, I don’t promise. I would like to see you all very much but whether it would be the thing to do I don’t know. But Cloyd, I…
… I want you and Oscar to look to the interest of your mother. She is worthy although things is as they are between her and I. She is worthy.
Have had a light winter here. Everybody has bad colds, a kind of Epi_______.
The grocery men and mechanics are all in a combine, makes things high and it is bad for those that is close run.
I am in about as good health as I might expect. Duke, he is working. His wife, she is well.
All for now.
With love to all.
A.J. Foster