"Loving Flowers" by Gertrude Boock (ca. Age 6)Drawing sent to Emma Gertrude Boock in an envelope addressed to Emma A.L. Boock, New Ulm, Minnesota, Address 801 Suth St[ate]., with a flower stamp and a postmark dated 1919. Note the bird in the nest.
Accompanying the drawing, was Gertrude's first written letter:
"Dear mother
this is my first letter.
I can read. I can write.
I love you.
Good by
Gertrude"
Emma Aufderheide Boock with Gertrude and Norbert, visiting the Adolph Klauses in Rochester, Minnesota, about 1920.
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