15 Letters Mailed to Teenager Joseph Denny of Quarryville, Pennsylvania
Dated 1926 to 1929 Most Letters while Joseph was a Patient in Pennsylvania Hospital, in Philadelphia.
These letters are:
March 22, 1926. From Catharine Books of Quarryville, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. She is a classmate of Joseph Denny. Information about school and classmates.
October 2, 1926. From Charles V. Denny on the U. S. S. Umpgua at the Navy Yard of Charleston, South Carolina. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Quarryville. Reference to sister Alma Denny, etc.
January 6, 1926. From Paul W. Sweigart of Morgantown, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Quarryville. Reference to Joseph's sister Alma Denny. Information about being a Boy Scout, and about Paul's bicycle.
September 12, 1929. From Charles E. Byler of Morgantown, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Information about school. References to high school classmates George Boyer and Paul Sweigart. Information about high school and a barn fire at farm of Vernon Orr. Reference to Rosie Kurtz.
September 13, 1929. From Sadie Fisher of Morgantown, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Includes information about a singing at the home of John Hartzler, and singing at the County Home in Reading, PA. Information about barn burning of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Orr. Information about Boston terriers, Edna Plank, Alfred Plank.
October 2, 1921. From George B. in State College, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Information about George's Classes, presumedly at Penn State. Information about George Zook and Christ Rhiel car racing. Information about Charles Kurtz and Bill Peck in Wilminglton, Delaware, out of jail on bail, apparently for bootlegging during prohibition: "they found 9 quarts of liquor in his car."
August 26, 1929. From Dr. Horace H. Jenks of Philadelphia. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Morgantown. Instructions to Joseph Denny about taking medicine for his swollen legs, with a pharmacy label from Pharmacist J. B. Shenk of Philadelphia.
Setpember 29, 1929. From Wilmer W. Hoffman of Morgantown, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Wilmer Hoffman was a classmate of Joseph Denny. Reference to a new International truck bought by David Hartz.
October 12, 1929. From Robert Byler in State College, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Information about Penn State vs. University of Penn football game. Information about the World Series baseball games, and initiating freshmen into a Penn State fraternity.
October 9, 1929. From Lois Benedict in Philadelphia. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Information about sending postage stamps to Joseph.
October 14, 1929. From the Alfred Plank and Edna Plank Family in Morgantown, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Information about Chautauqua. Alfred rode the goat at the Odd Fellows Lodge. Reference to Frank Plank of Willow Glen. Reference to Verna Kurtz getting married.
October 16, 1929. From William Daley of Dunwoody Home / Dunwoody Village, a convalescent home in Newtown Square, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Descriptions of Dunwoody Home. This Bill Daley had been in the Philadelphia hospital with Joseph Denny.
October 23, 1929. From Charles (Byler). Addressed to Joseph Denny in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital. Information about breaking his toe while wrestling, etc.
December 14, 1929. From Charles Byler and Mrs. Alice Byler of Morgantown, PA. Addressed to Joseph Denny at the Coatesville Hospital. Information about a car garage and a car wreck of Henry Zook, and a fire at Backersville, and the school buses of David Hartz. Emery Wells shoots a deer at Pine Swamp near Elverson, PA. Charles Peck trapped a weasel, but a thief stole the weasel and traps
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