Vatican Letter: I Hope it Worked

This was a curiosity to me, and, fingers crossed, I'm hoping it worked.

I am finding various people with the same last name, Ahern, in Portland Oregon, but have not yet dialed this in. I'm hoping that @Debora with her insane research skills might be able to (again) help me.

My wife thinks this is a weird thing to buy, but I'm hoping it turned out well, and that there are relatives around.

Thanks for looking.

 

Interesting that the stationery is not customized for a particular Vatican Secretary of State or the Pope he served, in this case Pius XII. Very thrifty.

 

Complicated to be Pope during WW2, for sure.

 

There were Aherns in Portland including a mother and daughter Mary but the daughter, who seems to be about the right age (b. 1886), had no issue. In terms of etiquette, "Mrs. Mary" would indicate a widow (although it's possible an uneducated woman of the period might refer to herself as such.) The framing may well be contemporary to the letter as Gunnary's was in business as early as the 1940s and telephone exchanges were eliminated in Portland in the mid-1950s.

Debora

 

Thanks @Debora. As always, appreciate your help.

 

My pleasure.

Debora

 

As a whole, and, as a high school English teacher, it's a helluva single sentence. 68 words, 6 commas, 13 prepositions, and only a couple of adjectives.

A throughly 19th C sentence, it seems to me.

 

It seems that the family would have had such a letter framed because it was a successful intervention. We can hope.

 

today would have been a text..........
" Pope prayin for ya....stay frosty ! "