Earl’s archives contain the most amazing assortment of ephemera. One of which is a collection of well over 100 letters written between himself at age 17-18 (called Butch by friends and family at that time) and the young 16 year old girl, Suzanne Brown, who would become his first wife and mother of his daughter, Margaret Warren. They wrote to each other sometimes multiple times a day while she was still a high school student and he had gone away to college at Murray State University – a distance that is only about 41 miles away from his home town – curiously a distance that today would easily be considered a daily commute for many.
But what is special about these letters now are the hidden gems — tid bits of information about wide ranging topics from photography to astronomy to his fears of Vietnam and communism in the cold war era.
Here are a few images and transcriptions. Each image can be selected and flipped for more information.
"P.S. Let us both just hope and pray that some day in the future our children and grandchildren will be able to read these letters and that when they do they won't be under communist domination and let us pray also that we will not be separated from each other forever by the greed of a few men who place their wealth and power above the lives of millions of people. I would, and I'm sure you would too, rather die now, than have my child or children be ruled by some dictator.Earl J. Warren, Jr. – Letters, 1962