Day 7 - Letters to Marion #2 (Indy)

Undated but I think about 1929, since that’s when we think my grandfather went to Eater Island the first time.

Marion,

You’ll probably never read this letter but I wanted to write it still. I have done many things in my life from fighting in the Great War to running from pirates in the South Pacific but facing you and your father are two things I cannot do just yet. You know, I’d have married you if Abner had agreed. I never meant it to go as badly as it did.

If something happens to me, please contact my father. He has something for you.

I am about to go to Easter Island to study some rongorongo tablets. No one has been able to decipher them yet. Maybe I can. Who knows? Anyway, it’s somewhere I’ve never been before so it’s a good thing.

I find myself wondering at odd times what you are doing. Do you have a boyfriend? Are you and your father looking for Old Testament artifacts? Rumor has it that’s what you are doing. Good luck!

Until we meet again,
Love,
Indy

Day 8 - Letters to Marion #3 (Indy)

Undated but probably sometime after 1936

Marion,

The Germans are becoming scarier. They search all over for more artifacts like the Ark. They believe that they can find magical powers from certain objects. You and I both know that is true. Years ago in Paris, Arnold Toynbee said the war would be to fight again when the powers that be treated Germany so badly. He was right. To leave a country without hope is a good way to make it easy for a man like Adolf Hitler to rise to power. I hope this next war will be over sooner and be less destructive. I hate war. Nothing good comes of it.

I am teaching again when I’m not in the field. It’s not terribly interesting since the students seem silly but I guess most college kids are silly. Odd to think I was in the trenches at that age. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

I think of you, of us, every single day but I am still sure I was right to leave. You know I am just not husband material.

Love,
Indy

Toynbee was the man who said, "Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."