June 17, 1943

 

Hello Ollie:

            Please forgive for not writing any sooner, but I just couldn’t find the time to write. How are you getting along, fine I hope. I am getting along OK and have nothing to complain about.

            I am still working at the Colortype, but the girls here are getting fewer and fewer. Betty Hansen quit.

            Remember Eddie from the 3rd floor? Well, he’s leaving for the Navy Monday. I really wish you could be here right now. This place is really going nuts. We have 2 men left on the floor and that is Jack and our other fellow on the second, and when they aren’t around we have to do our own lifting, especially in the Homework Deptarment. But most of the [time] we do our own lifting. What makes it so hard is that Jack comes in at 10:00 and goes to another job at 3:00 o’clock; he is working in a defense plant.

            Julia said I should say Hello to you, and said I should tell you that she misses you and wish you were here, for then she would get the right boxes she asks for.

            The weather here in Chicago is OK but a little to hot for working people. Now it has reached 100°degrees. And you know when it gets hot like this, you just don’t feel like working, but just like to loaf and take it easy.

            Well this is all for the time being, and will sign off, and hope to hear from you soon.

                                                                                                            Always a friend

                                                                                                            Angeline