While it may seem that TW and Louise were immersed in a whirlwind of romance – their courting (well – I should probably say TW’s entreaties) was actually long in the making. TW’s hints to travel “abroad” was actually a playful response to Louis
A letter from Rose Bonney Attwood to her daughter, Hazel Louise in early 1913. It would appear that Rose travelled to Brockton Massachusetts in support of new babies and family ~ and was writing to the folks back at the homestead in West Minot,
The first of the uncovered letters from TW to Louise as he courted her in the early months of 1914. TW was assuredly a quiet romantic of great warmth & humor but interestingly, even my father was unaware that such sentimental letters even survi