Di 09.05.1933, Brief von Anneliese an Walter: “according to the latest laws things look a fair bit brighter”

Schwelm, 9. V. 1933.
Josef Wagnerstr. 48

My dear boy,

I should be very cross with you for spending such a lot of money on that beautiful flower for my father’s “day of honour”? But still it’s marvellous really awfully nice and all the flowers make our rooms look beautiful. My father enjoyed his jubilee very much indeed. All the postmen were standing in a row when father appeared and his desk and chair and the doors and pictures in his room were all ornamented with green stuff and with flowers. It was simply touching.

In the afternoon my auntie Mimi Tölke came to visit us and she brought a lot of presents with her – several of them for me because I have been so very kind to come back to Germany. In the evening there was another one of the nursing lessons, oh I shall become so very clever.

I often think of the 2 nice days in Bochum. I thank your dear mother again for making ever[y]thing so very pleasant. I am looking forward to Saturday a week, are you too? I have been talking to Grete Lindemann to-day. The new “Assessoren” have not yet arrived. She thinks that according to the latest laws things look a fair bit brighter. I should not mind! –

Have you made any complaints about the trams not being on time? Good luck to Hedwig and Hugo. All the best to your mother, Karl and especially to you from all of us.

Much love and a big kiss
Yours Anneliese