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New Year's Eve
1935

My Dear Mrs. Smith, – I Know I
am about the last person on
Earth you would care to hear
from, but I feel that you
should have some explanation
as to why I have not repaid
any of the money I have owed
you for so long. Please do
not think it is mentally
outlawed, at all. People who have
reached the lowest strata of
social life can only regard
money as something they
vaguely remember hearing about
in some more opulent life, –
but are now entirely unfamiliar
with. My husband has never
been able to find any sort
of work outside SRA [California State Relief Administration] – in
San Diego – and we have not