Explanation

The following note was found tucked under the front leather cover daybook of Jay Brooks, in a tear in the flyleaf, when that book was given to me in 1976 by my grandmother, Opal Brooks Rue. When I asked her about the note, she told me she wrote it when the man who was then her fiancee, Arthur Rue, was preparing to leave her in Tucumcari, New Mexico, where they had met, to secure a job in Kansas City. She told me that she was afraid he would leave and never send for her.

Her fear was unjustified. They were married 23 September 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri and remained so for over 45 years.

My Golden School Days, scrapbook by Opal Brooks Rue

Autobiographical statement, by Opal Brooks Rue

A story of your grandmother Opal, by Rotha Brooks MacKay

Arthur Harold Rue, by Opal Brooks Rue

Proud of his wife, A former Tucumcari girl, by Arthur Harold Rue