#1 – ESTHER SAVED EACH LETTER
Esther told me she saved all the letters starting with the very first one. She kept them in this envelope. The envelope and the letters inside it are at least 72 years old. Esther’s handwriting: “Sols letters“.
On view: 1 manila envelope with Sols letters written on it.
The letters were mostly in order, facing up, with the first letter from December 1944 on the top of the pile and the last letter from January 1946 on the bottom.
They were not clipped or stapled and were only folded if the actual letter had been folded when originally mailed. They had been carefully handled. The letters had weathered and faded in places. Solly only wrote on one side of a piece of stationary and used additional folded sheets as insets, numbering the tops of pages so you knew which page or side of stationary to pull out and read next.
The photos were scanned at 2400 dpi and some at 1200 dpi. The letters were mostly scanned at 600 dpi. Both the photos and letters were formatted slightly to restore some of the tonal qualities time had weakened.
Love Solly 
David my beloved cousin. You have stopped my heart. Only you would do something like this. I am sitting here, reading, looking, remembering and crying. Funny to get this today because I took my mom’s old bedroom lamps down here to Sarasota, and we just bought shades and were kvelling and crying just an hour ago. And now this masterpiece.
Don’t you love how Solly extols the magic of writing letters? And now we have their forum.
Thank you. Thank you
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