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Michael Cerveris

Three Bad Wolves

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Hinman Bigelow Letters: With Lots of Love (19 Mar 1919)

This letter was written on 19 March 1919. Hinman Bigelow has received the $30 he demanded in his last letter, but he's not finished yet. I don't think he's going to be happy until he's emptied his poor mother's savings account.

March 10th

Dear Mother,

I received your letter also the check for $30. The pictures were good, infact better than I expected. Thank sister for me. Tell her to write me once in awhile, I think I write about two letters to her one. Ask her if she kept one of each picture containing myself if she didn't I will send her the pictures to keep!

You don't seem to realize I am saving money by not coming to Atlantic City, well I figure I am saving at least $15.

Travelling expenses =	22.50
Board 10 days (in Atlantic)	30.00
Allowance	7.00
	59.50

Well it is closer to $30 than $15. Don't you think I have done what is best? Although I hate to sacrifice my vacation.

Well mother I have not made good this term in either deportment or lessons but hope to make them both up during vacation and next term I will start afresh.

I hope also to make good in track. Tell sister to show you some of the clippings I sent her.

Also during my stay here I hope to get off my conditions and be eligible to compete for Mercersburg in the coming meets. If when the Pennsylvania meet is about a week off I send for some money to spend on the trip you send me anywhere from $5 to $10 to get my suit in condition and for any little extra's, and remember the sacrifice I am now making.

Please give the enclosed clipping to sister to put with the rest.

With lots of love to you and best regards to Mrs Russell and the rest.

Your loving son
Ted Bigelow

P.S. Bob Card is the fellow not Bob Kimble.

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Mark and Roger

St. John Lutheran Kindergarten (1973)

Hinman Bigelow Letters: Crazy Ted Bigelow (11 Mar 1919)

This letter was written on 11 March 1919. Hinman Bigelow writes his angriest letter yet! It really makes you wonder what his mother said to him! Not surprisingly, he spent some time at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia just a few years later in 1923. His mental health was examined, but their verdict was simply an ungovernable temper.

Be sure to check out the scans, you can see the anger in his handwriting. His rage increasing with each sentence he wrote.

March 11th

Mrs. George A. Bigelow,

I received your most insulting letter and I paid the doctors bill.

I don't think I want to come to Atlantic City if you are there, but I would like to see Sister and Aunt Hattie. I won't stay penned up in this prison all vacation with the fellows gone. I need a relaxation, the doctor told me so!

So you send me the $30 to leave here not later than March 21st!

I am keeping that letter you wrote so I will have something to show concerning my mental condition. Tell people letters of such a kind drove me to it.

I absolutely must have a vacation after this awful routine and no society, down town only two hours a day and I have guard and can't go down. Also I will endeavor to show any doctor which you examine my head some of the reasons for which I may be mentally upset.

Sister has written she wants to see me and I have other friends so send the money. I promise I won't come see you under any circumstances.

$30!

I have means of getting it if you don't send. So send before March 21st!

[Crazy] Ted Bigelow

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Lassiter and Despereaux

I'll take them handcuffed together.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell - Eddie Monroe in "Grimm"

Stippling - Sharpie pen
March 2012