1934 letter from Thurston

Thurston (my dad) had been working all summer with his brother Watt selling washers and refrigerators for Texas Power & Light.  On their stationery he wrote his mother and enclosed a $5 bill to help with her expenses.

Daddy wanted very much to go to music school after high school but he was told in no uncertain terms by his brother that he had to go to work and help support their mother.  Widowed in 1929, she had tried selling Avon cosmetics, selling books door to door, and taking in sewing. 

But in those days there was no such thing as Social Security, and Mama could not have survived without money from her children.

I think it is legible, but the letter starts

 :"Hello, Mom Ol' Sweet...Here is five smackers..."