Letters

Letter 1904-10 from John Bauer to Ester Ellqvist, consisting of four pages written on a thin, folded sheet of paper. Main writing handwritten in pencil and black ink. LETTER TRANSCRIPT: .. [Page 1] Sjövik in Jönköping Oct 1904 Esther! I’m a muck [indrawn cross] Thanks for the bref John John [indrawn cross] muck????? .. [Page 2] you do not let me go. I [?] dej hanging at my stupe but I have to get up for a mountain. I think it was The mountain deserts the wild monkey. But it was steeper than sooner and slippery rain My forces runno away with the blood and [inscribed: I lf-net --- [?] --- [?] ---gna [?] they. Then [inscribed: mej] your breeding [the last word probably belongs to the sentence above] laugh again [inscribed cross]. You watched your work with full-fvetist smile on your cat face and I woke up with your laughter --- [?] a Shaking as a Fear. Hång you give me evil sinna dromes .. [Page 3] The echoed --- [?] in days na and nat bob--- [?]. Himlen lefv sick yellow and crows cracked. I Sag black wings and can the suffocating [coated: smell] angor Than a Power Strength I for--- [?] in my own own Bleberries [?] and warm blood. I so dej nat sick Yellow, [Constructed Word] A Helvetic smiling you had. You You Esther I died but you laughed laughed like chef af djäflar and the tax Cut Mej [Constructed: in Skifvor] cut mej. I wanted to scream but I .. [Page 4] could not --- [?] woke and shake as af chills I give you mej like that dana drommar sag John John