LETTER FROM MARRION JACKSON TO CHARLES ARTHUR JACKSON

[Written on headed paper from Pine Tree Inn, Lakehurst, N.J.]

111 N 50th Street
West Phila

Sunday 1/12/1919

My dear Charlie

It's ages I know since I heard from you or wrote to you either, but "better late than never" eh!

How are you and your family, how are conditions over there now peace has been declared, of course. I hear from Nellie and Laura regularly but they don't tell me much about general conditions, there is generally so much home gossip.

I expect you had my wedding announcement, did you not, were you awfully surprised? To be frank, I was myself, it was all decided in such a hurry at the last minute, we did not really make any decided arrangements until about ten days before I was married, so you may know.

I met Everett last winter down in Florida, then when we came north, I saw him several times, then well, then we got married.

We were up in Conn. all the summer, in October Everett was taken sick with double pneumonia, poor lad, he was quite sick, but, thank God, he recovered, and the Dr advised him to go south as quickly as he could, so he is down there this winter again.

We thought it best for me not to go, as all being well, I am going to present him with a son and heir in the Spring, it is not nice being without him, but one has to adapt oneself to circumstances sometimes eh?

I am wildly excited just at present, am expecting Nancy in about ten days. I do not know for how long, but she is on her way home to England, and is visiting here before she sails, I feel I cannot wait to see her.

Arthur & Nana keep very well, I am going out there this afternoon for dinner, they were around to see me last night.

Shall be glad to hear from you, my dear, when you can find time to write, my love to Nellie and the baby, not forgetting you,

Your affectionate sister

Marrion

Pine Tree Inn was built in 1898 and demolished in 1937. Coincidently, the airship Hindenberg crashed in Lakehurst in 1937. The Pine Tree Inn was open from October to May. It had many beautiful rooms, a long sunporch, game rooms, ornate fireplaces, and even tennis courts and a small golf course.

Pictures of Pine Tree Inn can be seen at
https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/