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Shall I Say a Kiss? : The Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-1938
author
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Davis, Morris Joseph.; Davis, Eva Weintrobe; Davis, Lennard J.
publisher
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Gallaudet University Press
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9781563680762
ebook isbn13
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9780585122717
language
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English
subject
Davis, Morris Joseph,--1898-1981--Correspondence, Davis, Eva Weintrobe,--1911-1972--Correspondence, Deaf--New York (State)--New York--Correspondence, Deaf--England--Correspondence, Courtship--New York (State)--New York, New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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HV2534.D38A3 1999eb
ddc
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362.4/2/00922
subject
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Davis, Morris Joseph,--1898-1981--Correspondence, Davis, Eva Weintrobe,--1911-1972--Correspondence, Deaf--New York (State)--New York--Correspondence, Deaf--England--Correspondence, Courtship--New York (State)--New York, New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
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SHALL I SAY A KISS?
The Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple 1936-1938
Lennard J. Davis, Editor
Preface by Gerald J. Davis
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington, D.C.
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GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington, DC 20002
1999 by Lennard Davis.
All rights reserved. Published 1999
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, Morris Joseph, 1898-1981. Shall I say a kiss? : the courtship letters of a deaf couple, 1936-1938 / Lennard J. Davis, editor; preface by Gerald Davis. p. cm. ISBN 1-56368-076-9 (hc.: alk. paper) 1. Davis, Morris Joseph, 1898-1981Correspondence. 2. Davis, Eva Weintrobe, 1911-1972Correspondence. 3. DeafNew York (State)New YorkCorrespondence. 4. DeafEngland Correspondence. 5. CourtshipNew York (State)New York. 6. New York (N.Y.)Biography. I. Davis, Eva Weintrobe, 1911 1972. II. Davis, Lennard J., 1949- . III. Title. HV2534.D38A3 1999 362.4'2'00922dc21
[B] 98-51831
CIP
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With deepest love and appreciation to Morris Joseph Davis (1898-1981) and Eva Weintrobe (1911-1972), whose love made possible this book and without whom there would have been only silence.
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction Before Crossing the Divide
1
"I Shall Not Rush into Things ..." August 25, 1936 to November 3, 1937
29
"Wondering... If Your Love Had Ever Been Deep" November 11, 1937 to April 22, 1938
97
"Dear Eva of My Own" May 3, 1938 to August 25, 1938
123
Epilogue The Ever After
163
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Preface Love and Misunderstanding
Gerald J. Davis
It is a difficult task to reconcile the parents I knew so well as I was growing up to the young man and woman who wrote these delicate negotiations of lovers. To all outward appearances, they are not the same people. My mother was twenty-six when the correspondence began and my father, thirty-eight. Much older now than they were then, I look back across the years and try to imagine how they must have felt. The woman, who appears so feisty and self-assured in her letters, must have been terrified of leaving the warm security of her family and venturing forth on a journey to the New World to take up housekeeping with a man who was little more than a stranger. It may well be that Eva Weintrobe and Morris Davis had not actually met more than four or five times before she sailed for the States to be married. As Eva writes, "I am taking a very big risk." Her hesitation was well-founded because, as it turned out, Eva never saw her mother again.
Morris, at the time of their correspondence, was living with his father in a cold-water flat in Brooklyn. It must have been an unrewarding existence. He had little money. His work
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consisted of long hours of drudgery. His social life, aside from the Deaf club, was probably less than satisfying. The prospect of marrying a young and beautiful bride was, no doubt, a consummation devoutly to be wished.
I do not know the young woman who wrote these letters. The mother I knew was a submissive and docile wife who rarely argued with or contradicted my father. Over the years of their marriage, the force of his personality must have come to dominate hers and place her in a subservient role. However, she did, from time to time, show flashes of that humor, strength, and self-confidence that resonate in her letters. I can't imagine my mother being coquettish, as when she writes, "Shall I say a kiss?" She was always the dutiful wife, even when she did not agree with my father's decisions. She didn't display any of the sharp-edged sense of humor that had her write, in response to Morris's suggestion that they marry in England and then have him go alone to America, with her following him after she had secured her visa, "It is all right for cricketeers [ballplayers] & film stars, but Jewish people never do things like this."
My mother was also self-reliant then, as she demonstrates when she writes that she has saved enough money to buy her own wedding dress. When I envision my mother, I do not picture her as self-reliant.
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