Letters From Jim

OK, here's the story. It is incomplete, but we don't know much more about it than this.

George and Pat Koch, or Grandma and Grandpa [on Dad's side], as I call them, told this story recently. It involves great-grandparents George and Helen Koch and some strange, typewritten letters they used to get in the mailbox now and then. They were always just signed "Jim." I don't have specific information on when the letters began coming, when the last one came or how many there were. There might be some that have not survived. It seems that at least some of these letters are from 1975, as one letter refers to the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack as having been "34 years ago in December."

Anyway, one afternoon at our grandparents', Grandpa pulled out an envelope full of these old letters and read some of them to everyone. Some were familiar with them, but I wasn't. I asked to borrow the letters and scan them in at home. Dad and I have even been discussing the possibility of making a book about these notes. Until then, however, I am making them available for all to read, as they really are quite amusing. George and Helen used to always get a kick out of these letters, and they needed the humor, as they were going through a tough time in some ways.

Well, the identity of the author may remain an eternal enigma. Grandma and Grandpa can't recall anyone by the name of Jim, and unfortunately, George and Helen have long since passed away -- but they never knew who it was, either. Was "Jim" a nom de plume? "Jim" frequently refers to his wife, but never by name. Was he a neighbor, a relative, a fellow churchgoer? No one knows. What we do know, though, is that he almost certainly knew George and Helen well, given the content (this becomes clear once you've read some of the letters). He filled the letters with huge spelling slips and grammatical blunders, almost certainly intentionally. But enough history; on with the letters.
The quality of some of these (due to image resizing) is not perfect. Below you can also find a plain-text reprint of all the letters (unedited, of course).

In no particular order:
Plain-text version of the letters
Letter #1
Letter #2
Letter #3
Letter #4
Letter #5
Letter #6
Letter #7
Letter #8
Letter #9
Letter #10
Letter #11
Letter #12
Letter #13