[Letter from Felix Butte to Elizabeth Kirkpatrick - April 21, 1923]

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Letter from Dr. Butte to Elizabeth discussing a dance he attended, the next few days, and how much he misses her.

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[2] p. ; 28 x 19 cm.

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Butte, Felix Latimore, Sr. April 21, 1923.

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Letter from Dr. Butte to Elizabeth discussing a dance he attended, the next few days, and how much he misses her.

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[2] p. ; 28 x 19 cm.

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Text: "Saturday noon. My Own Own Sweetheart -- with all the rush getting ready for the dance last night I am sorry I did not get to write you. I started to just stick one of these pictures in an envelope and send just that. The dance was a wonderful success, if everybody's having a wonderful time is what makes a dance a success. But wild -- my gosh, I wished for you and thought of you so often during the evening, and in a way was glad you had not gotten your first impression of Galveston dances and medical students from such a dance! A bowery dance is what it was, and all that that means. I was a sight -- three days beard blacked over with this eyebrow stencil, a loud checked cap, a jersey sweater with blue shirt over it, open at the neck and sleeves rolled up above, the sweater sleeve down, loud stripped [sic] socks and tight pants. Etta Gilbert didn't even recognize me. But I was tame compared with some of them. we got the orchestra drunk, and music! Well, it was a hot dance, and lasted till two o'clock. Maybe I didn't hate to get up for that 8 o'clock class this morning! I'll bet you surely enjoy the comforts of a vacant Saturday morning! I still have her car here at the house -- a King 8 roadster -- but will have to take it back right after dinner -- and mail this letter to you. Sweetheart, the more I see, the more I learn about others, the more I know how much I love you, the more I realize how wonderful you are, how nice, how fine. I love you, Libo, with all my whole heart. This afternoon begins the study for that anatomy quiz Monday -- which will be continued on thru tonight and all day tomorrow. Do hope so much I get a letter from you this afternoon -- and tomorrow, maybe you know how good it makes you feel. Yes,, it's warmed up here a lot, too, and cleared off with a strong south wind -- Spring may get here yet -- hope it's time for summer, but it will have to hurry! Am enclosing a little snapshot Fish took of me last Saturday afternoon. It's not much -- but not so bad for a snapshot. There goes the dinner bell! I love you, love you. Yours always, Felix."

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Butte, Felix Latimore, Sr. [Letter from Felix Butte to Elizabeth Kirkpatrick - April 21, 1923], letter, April 21, 1923; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1661208/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Moody Medical Library, UT.

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