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Portland, Oregon
July 15, 1937


Dear Elsie -

    Darling, whatever you do, please don't say anything about our correspondence as I received a letter from Mother this morning informing me that Dorothy and her mother are still trying to get me behind the prison bars. God love it Darling I hope that you have not said too much to your folks or anything at all to your and my friends. County attorney Smith and lawyer McPortlan know all about us but are trying to avoid being forced to take any action against us, because they are personally for us and not against us. But never-the-less, if Dorothy can prove our where-abouts to county attorney Smith he will be forced to take action against me for aiding kidnapping, though McPortlan would act as my lawyer and would probably win the case for me because attorney Smith wants me to come out OK.
    But lets you and I not run the risk of my arrest until Vernon and Dorothy get their case successfully settled one way or the other. County attorney Smith and also McPortlan know all about the Schneider bunch and don't want anything to do with them. I have been informed that Mrs Schneider went to lawyer McPortlan's office to have him take action against me and he kicked her clean plum out of his office and told her to never come back there again.
    Vernon and I have been working in the hayfield on the Riverview Dairy Farm at Vancouver, Washington, but we finished up last night and so we have nothing to do now until this coming Sat. on which day I will go to work for the Columbia Food Stores as clerk. I have only been hired for the one day, but if I prove to be satisfactory to the manager I will no doubt receive steady employment there as the manager is transferring one of his clerks to a Columbia Food Store in Vancouver and he needs a clerk to fill the vacancy here in Portland. I feel very sure that I can satisfy the manager. I went down and saw him last Sat. evening and the work looks very simple to me. If I succeed, my wages will be $18.50 per week (I guess I told you before).
    I am anxiously waiting for a letter from you Darling, informing me whether or not Dorothy told you that I was in Portland or if she just said that she knew my address. She may have told you that she knew my address with the idea that you might spill the beans to her thinking she kew my address anyway when she really didn't. But if she told you or if her mother told your folks what our address is (3448 Huse St, Multnomah, Ore.) which borders Portland, then Vern must have written Dorothy without my knowledge of the fact. And if she has known where we are all this time then it must be that they are not going to do anything about it. And it also must be then that she is waiting for Vernon to send for her so that he and she can live together again. But my Darling Elsie, please don't say anything until I or Mother tell you that it is alright. Personally, I believe that it will all be straightened in only a few days.
    Darling, I'll be so glad when I get steady employment so that I can send for you. I have not done a thing out here but work, eat, sleep and write you and Mother letters. I have't even see a movie since the last one that you and I saw together.
    Now that I have no work until Saturday I am going to find out as much as I can in regard to the demand for girls here in Portland and about the wages that the girls get here.
    I have been called to noon luncheon, as they call it here, and so I will write you more later.

     Love & Kisses
     from your 
     Loving Honey
    
        Irvin



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