BANKING TERMS-VIII: Commercial Paper - (1) Notes and acceptances bought and sold on the open market. (2) Notes and acceptances arising from commercial transaction such as purchase, sale, or shipment of mechandise.
At home with nothing to do - the first evening in two weeks. Took a walk with Mother. What a glorious evening. So warm and clear. Yes I came home and wrote a poem. Not a mushy sentimental one. It is really only a rhyme because its subject is too material and common place for poetry - A Roadster. What a night for a ride.
BANKING TERMS-VIII: Commercial Paper - (1) Notes and acceptances bought and sold on the open market. (2) Notes and acceptances arising from commercial transaction such as purchase, sale, or shipment of mechandise.
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Another mysterious love missle*! It is a shame, ardent admirer, that you are so wasting your deep and, apparently, sincere emotions. I may want you and only you to hold and protect my life. I may despise you. Don't waste yourself - for your emotions and your soul make you whomever you might be! If "God intended" you had better let me know! Be fair to yourself and me!
*It appears Virginia has a secret admirer. Yes of course we should have gone to school. But "The Kid Brother" was "very good." Yes John, it's always late! Perhaps the day will come Daddy will not say, "Virginia, it's getting late. You and John both have to get up early in the morning." My pearls were almost gone tonight. How glad I am it was not my ring. "Our ring." My dearest possession!
BANKING TERMS - VII: Collateral - Personal property (generally stocks, bonds, warehouse receipts, bills of lading, receivables, etc.) pledged as security for a debt. Collection Charges - Charges made by a bank for collecting a note, draft, coupon, or other similar instrument. Our customary walk home was as much a pleasure as it ever has been. Elizabeth says she would tire of seeing a person so often. I thought so too, until I met John.
Playing truant again - you naughty boy! But you came to meet "us" after school. When we first started to go to evening school my heart was full of thoughts which I dared not express to myself but now I have whispered them even to you. Yes, I sigh when I think what it is to be young and foolish and fathoms deep in love!
BANKING TERMS - VI: Commercial Credit - An instrument issues by a bank in behalf of an importer or cosignee in favor of an exporter or shipper authorizing him to obtain funds when he has complied with certain conditions stipulated in the credit. Dr. Thomas is certainly a fine minister. Beware, lest thou forget the Lord thy God! How I needed that. It was meant for me! Oh God, help me not to forget myself and Thee. J. you seemed to hear the address even though you were writing on the calendar “I love you.” I can see it now. If we were twenty-one! What did you mean when you said nothing but drew the lily? and under my flowers you wrote “never.” Tonight is the first time you have ever mentioned marriage to me. If you were twenty one what would you do first? Ask me to marry you and I would say “yes.”
“All is but Faith. Faith in Love, faith in God, faith in the world – All is faith.” Did you intentionally put “love” first? What an insipid, shallow somebody I am. How sweet, how refined and how dignified I am with “outsiders,” – but with my family – I am nothing for I am without love. I quarrel and argue stubbornly – and then I am sorry but do I admit it to anyone beside myself and my God? If I do not admit my wrong to my family, have I really given in?Daddy says that John has changed me. But how? He could inspire me only to better myself. Would I want him to know me as I am. Oh, am I really acting when I’m with John? I do not know myself. Is the good or the bad my real self? Does Daddy really think that I have no love or respect for him? It is not true, it is not true. John, tonight is the first time that I have really felt that I could not possibly let you go. May the day come when you will not have to leave me!
BANKING TERMS – V: Certified Check – A check which the drawee’s bank has agreed to pay by placing thereon the words “Certified,” the date and signature of someone in authority. Clearing house – An association of banks formed for the purpose of collecting checks by exchanging those drawn upon each other. Went around to Mary’s to learn how to wax water lilies. Mary certainly is clever with crepe paper. We spent a rather quiet evening but had lots of fun together. My – what a job to get that wax off our fingers. My yellow lily, even though it is my first, is as pretty as Mary’s.
Finance committee meeting at Friendly. Why won’t the girls pay their dues. Everything is “sale.” Mary taught me to make a water lily.
BANKING TERMS – IV: Bill of Lading—A receipt given by a transportation company for goods accepted for shipment. A bill of lading is also a contract made between the transportation company issuing it and the shipper. School again. Elizabeth, you look so queer in glasses. Poor John, working again until nine o’clock. But you came to meet us even so. The first time I’ve seen you since Sunday and I didn’t get even one little kiss. Families are wonderful things except –. I won’t see you again until Saturday.
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ContextThis is the journal of Virginia Lee Scott, my grandmother, written when she was seventeen and first dating my grandfather, John Arnold Wilson. It's a dairy published by Media Drug Stores and includes space for two entries per day, with facts about the era printed at the bottom, which I have included in italics. Following, 1928, is the journal of John Arnold Wilson, my grandfather, at age nineteen and in love with my grandmother, followed by my grandmother's journal in 1931. Archives
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