Arnold and Newlin: September 20, 1953

John Edward "Eddie" was born Sunday, September 20, 1953. He was born via caesarean section, as were all of Newlin's subsequent four children. Arnold called his mother-in-law Nursie Whaley Ashmore the same day and she wrote a letter that evening, mailing it the next day.

The Boston Lying-In Hospital is now Brigham and Women's Hospital, but Newlin's room reservation was for Richardson House (now the Fisher–Richardson House).

In May Newlin's obstetrician arranged a room at Boston Lying-In Hospital's Richardson House in Mansfield, Massachusetts

this is a typical card to accompany delivered flowers or a plant

birth announcement card set out to family and friends

the envelope is addressed by Nursie's daughter (Newlin's sister) Floreine, who had distinctive handwriting

Blanche Whaley Howell was Nursie's brother's daughter (and Gordon was Blanche's husband). Gordon was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, and therefore Blanche was in Honolulu during the attack. Oh her return to the continent, she was told not to speak of it, to prevent home front morale from plummeting.

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