Did you ever get fooled by an envelope?

Can't judge a book by its cover or a letter by it's envelope...

We're having a heritage day thing at work in a couple of months, so I thought I'd get back onto translating my last couple German letters, and set up an exhibit.

For those of you who have missed all the excitement, I have 8 letters from 1922 & 1923 that were sent to my great-grandfather by relatives who were still living in Germany at the time.

The challenge has not so much been the German, since I'm fairly fluent, as with the old script that they wrote in back then. I got printouts from the internet, actually, and started working, and now I can actually read the stuff. And I haven't run into too much archaic German or dialect either, lucky, I guess.

Anyway, the first 6 letters are translated, and the 7th is deciphered except for a few words that are hard to read. Usually when I go back later, I'm able to get them though.

But Letter #8, now that is interesting. From the gorgeous handwriting on the envelope, I just figured this one would be a piece of cake. Nope. The writing on the letter itself is quite messy. I may need help with this one.

But I have learned a bit about that side of the family and what they had to live with, and it's fascinating. And also, heartbreaking! When I'm finished, I'll publish it all in my blog and link to it with a discussion here.

Did you ever get fooled by an envelope?