Grandview, Mo.
Mar. 12, 1911
Dear Bessie:
I am still looking for your letter. I am always glad to hear from you, and a letter from an old friend to a lonesome farmer is very comforting. But that isn't what I started out to say.
I wanted to know if you would go to dinner with me on the seventeenth. Mary and Mrs. White will have seats close to ours and I thought that if you had no objection we could all four go to dinner together. You see it will be nearly six when that gentleman gets done playing, and pretty late time we get back to Independence. I hope your mother is well by this time. Vivian is taken a notion to have the grippe at this late date, and has been in pretty bad shape. Ethel and Nellie and Myra and Mary Colgan were out and stayed over Sunday. The seniors of Ruskin High School at Hickman's Mill gave a play and the girls came out to go. We had a fine time and although it rained all during the performance it cleared up before we had to come home and we didn't get wet.
Well hoping that nothing will prevent you staying to dinner after the music on Friday and that you'll write me soon.
I am sincerely yours,
Harry S. Truman