Letters to a Cowlady

Story in the San Marcos Daily Record

On December 30th, 1947, Two little girls in southeast London, captivated by the American west, wrote to "A Cowlady on a Ranch in Texas U.S.A." They put their letters in an envelope, along with their photos, and dropped it in the post. That ambiguously addressed envelope eventually made it to my late grandmother, Mrs. Helen Michaelis on the Michaelis Ranch.

We discovered these letters, 60 years later, in my grandmothers old office. I don't know if she ever sent Barbara and Sylvia a picture of her horse, or a cowgirl outfit, but I'd be very interested to find out.

Max G. Michaelis IV (max@michaelisranch.com)

Barbara Cowin

Sylvia Gray

The Cowlady - Mrs. Helen Michaelis