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Theater Ticket
2 tickets to a performance of the Merchant of Venice for Sylvia Weiner. The play took place at the Stratford Festival of Canada.
GLC09414.1684
27 April 1943
Weiner, Sylvia (1912-2008)
to Morris "Moe" Weiner
Addresses many of Moe's previous letters. Sylvia wishes her mail would reach him on a regular basis. Comments that he is sewing, not using a gun or pen in the Army. She attended the Executive Meeting of the Victory Educational Council of the Ocean...
GLC09414.0011
29 April 1943
Sylvia tells Moe about the current book she is reading. Received a gift of two records, then played ping-pong. Notes that he has been gone for eight weeks. This letter includes a hand drawn map of the United States with Brooklyn at one end and Salem...
GLC09414.0015
18 May 1943
Sylvia wants to come and see him on the West coast in August. Got home late from seeing "Mission to Moscow." Talks about the Trotsky trials and other events in Soviet history, and that Russia has to protect herself. Tells Moe he knows all of the...
GLC09414.0036
6 July 1943
Written at 8:00 PM at home. Sylvia went to the office and remained in the field until 2:00 PM when she went to Moe's father's house. Talks about the book "Citizen Tom Paine." Compares Paine's writings to the current situation with World War II...
GLC09414.0073
30 August 1943
Written at the office. Sylvia says she went to an M.D. on President Street [Brooklyn] because she had a bladder infection. Thanks Moe for the books and pictures he sent her.
GLC09414.0094
17 September 1943
Sylvia is writing on the new writing paper she got for her birthday. She went to see "Watch on the Rhine," reminds Moe that she has already seen the play. Calls this the finest movie she has ever seen. She says that for the first time you see in the...
GLC09414.0116
18 September 1943
Written at 11:00 PM at home. Sylvia tells Moe how much she misses him. Went to work and spent a half day in the administrator's office in regard to the Union's Grievance Committee. Stood on line for stamps, cake and gas. Just finished reading "The...
GLC09414.0117
8 February 1944
Sylvia notes Moe bought a new pen and says as soon as time permits she will go to Waterman and get him a new point. Wants to learn all of the "Englishisims" he is learning while stationed in England. Wishes he were home to advise her about filling...
GLC09414.0153
29 February 1944
Midnight: Sylvia responds to various letters she has received from Moe, mentions Jim, Al and Harry, encloses typed lyrics of a song, not clear whether it is an original song or not.
GLC09414.0183
1 March1944
Sylvia reassures Moe that victory is near and that it will be worth it. She says she will send him some mystery novels, and thanks him for the pictures he sent
GLC09414.0185
4 March 1944
Sylvia writes that she is reading a psychological study of a schizophrenic who gradually becomes homicidal.
GLC09414.0190
17 March 1944
V-Mail: Sylvia says how much she misses Moe, tells him the current book she is reading
GLC09414.0207
13 April 1944
Sylvia says she's going to a play called Decision, and has read two "lousy" detective stories. Includes a rebus in middle of page 5 and drawings of various foods for Moe to choose from.
GLC09414.0234
19 April 1944
Sylvia mentions an essay she wrote her last year of high school
GLC09414.0242
26 June 1944
Sylvia asks if Moe would like certain books, as she will send them but says it is too difficult to send a particular type of hair tonic that he likes.
GLC09414.0306
28 July 1944
Sylvia discusses the books they are reading, and a conversation she had with Olga about Marty.
GLC09414.0337
1 September 1944
This letter features a sketch of Sylvia sitting with a book in her lap.
GLC09414.0370
16 February 1945
Sylvia writes about how on the way to the lecture she stopped at a bar and read a book on the psycho. While there she was approached by a strange woman who talked about her mother's impact on her.
GLC09414.0517
29 April 1945
Sylvia just finished a twenty page paper which she describes briefly.
GLC09414.0583
11 May 1945
Sylvia is currently reading an interesting book about the people of Germany.
GLC09414.0592
24 May 1945
to "Moe" Weiner
Sylvia mentions that she got a new book from the library called Traumatic Neurosis.
GLC09414.0608
23 June 1945
Sylvia listened to a baseball game, then went up to the roof to relax. She is now practicing French.
GLC09414.0635
20 July 1945
Sylvia is forced to do some copyediting at work, she later went to the movies with Bess.
GLC09414.0652
1929-1945
Sylvia writes that she is scared because she hasn't done anything about her paper yet. This is the last page of a letter.
GLC09414.0684
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