The Lee MacLellan Family Story
Lee MacLellan's Love Letters to Irma
As grandchildren we look at our grandparents with their sagging skin and gray or disappearing hair and forget that at one point they too were young and in love.
Fortunately my family kept the love letters their parents wrote to each other. From Lee they are in three sets: those written from 1916 (four years before they were married) to 1920, 1921 to 1937, then from 1937 - to the end of WWII in 1945.
Their letters are sweet and loving. Here are lines from just a few of the many letters Lee wrote over the years.
1917 - Lee working in a steel mill
July 12, 1917: My Darling honey-girl
I'm not going to send this to you tonight, but I can't help writing a few lines to you. I miss you so much. If I'm away from you i just live to to get back to see you...I think of you so many times - I'll wager I've kissed your picture 20 times since I got home tonight.
August 17, 1917: My Darling Patty:
I'm not going to send this to you tonight, but I can't help writing a few lines to you. I miss you so much. If I'm away from you i just live to to get back to see you...I think of you so many times - I'll wager I've kissed your picture 20 times since I got home tonight.