Admiralty Islands

September 11, 1944

My Dearest Darling Wife,

            Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Gee darling I got the sweetest letter from you today and one yesterday evening after I had written you. Gee but they were precious dear just like all your wonderful letters are. Your letters was August the thirteenth and September the first so that was pretty good Honey. I also got a letter from Mrs. Hutchinson today and it was September the second. Gee darling your precious letters mean the world and all to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful, awful happy and make me feel so wonderful all over. Gee darling it gives me the grandest feeling when I can get your sweet letters. You have been getting my mail pretty good to dear and I was sure happy to hear that. I sure hope you are getting it all right now dear. You are so darn sweet Honey and I love you so awful, awful darn much.

            I am feeling fine now dearest and getting along all right in every way. I have plenty of everything now dearest. Well Honey it isn’t quite so hot here today but plenty warm enough. I sure hope you are having some nice weather at home now. Well I worked the morning shift today Honey so I am all through for the day now. I sure hope we stay on shift work for a little while now.

            Honey you said in your letter today that your work was a lot better and you was sure feeling a lot better. Gosh Honey I am sure glad things have let up cause you have been working to darn hard. It has just been a steady go for about six weeks now dear and no let up. I sure hope your shoulder gets all right now dear and those sweet little fingers to. Maybe you can keep ahead now darling if you once get caught up and with Mary helping you to. I am sure glad that you have got him so he won’t ask you to work overtime anymore dear. Gosh Honey when you work all day that is a plenty for one day. I sure hope you don’t get any more rush like this has been dear. Please be awful, awful careful now darling and please don’t work to hard now.

            Honey you was telling me that you sure like your new powder dolly. I thought you had some like that when I was home dear. Darling I know you will never lose your pride, gosh Honey you always take such wonderful care of my little wife and always look so wonderful in all your clothes Honey. Darling I am so darn proud of you, gee but you are sweet darling and I love you so darn much. Honey you know I always want you to get anything you want to and don’t worry about the price of anything if you really want it dear. A person can always get a lot more out of something if you get something you really like Honey. Darling you are going to have to be looking for some new winter clothes now to and it won’t be so long until you will have to be looking for your Christmas outfit to Honey. Just about three more months now dear until the holiday season. Gosh honey I know you always felt awful if you thought you had some little something wrong with your clothes or anything like that. Darling all the years I have known you I never saw you go out with anything wrong in any way, not even as much as a little ream in your hose or anything dear and never did I ever see you with your slip showing Honey and that is something that some people just seem like they can’t keep from doing. I remember a couple of times you left home without your make-up Honey and you felt so awful bad about it and it was just a little while you had to go without it cause you always got some just as soon as you got to the office. Remember that morning I picked you up down there about thirteenth and Main Honey, you had rode in with Pop and I was going out to Stephens to get a job that day and happened to see you. You had forgotten your make-up that day and gee you felt so bad honey. Gosh honey I know I have the most perfect and most precious little wife in this world and Honey I am so proud of you. There isn’t a person anywhere that has any more pride than my sweet little dolly and Honey I know you will always be that way to. Darling I sure hope we can get suits just about the same shade but if not I want you to get a suit anyway dear. And darling you said I could pick out every piece of your outfit to and Honey I want you to pick every piece of mine to. Darling you sure have wonderful judgment about mens clothes to. You got me so many nice things darling and they were always so perfect in every way. Boy Honey I’ll say we have a lot to catch up on and like you said Honey when you meet me out in California we can be together right away and not waste any valuable time. Gosh Honey won’t it all be heavenly, the precious parts together after all this time. We will be so darn happy dearest.

            Darling you are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dearest. You are so darn sweet and so precious in every way dearest. Gee darling two years tomorrow that we became man and wife and darling we are so darn happy even though we can’t be together. It means so darn much to us to really belong to each other dear and we love each other more every day. Honey it will be so wonderful when I can press my lips against yours and just hold them there for so long and squeeze you so tight dearest. Honey dear I know that God hears our prayers and will keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible now. Darling please take good care of my precious parts. Gee but they are wonderful dear. Yours are fine Honey, miss you so darn much. You are so darn sweet Honey, the most precious and most adorable little wife in this world and I love you so awful, awful darn much and you know I always will dearest.

            Well sugar I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now dearest. I’ll be looking for your sweet letters now dearest. Please be awful, awful careful now dear and take good care of my sweet little wife. Remember now dear chin up and always happy. Tell all hello dear.

            Love and more love is all I can say dear.

            Loads and loads of love to my dear darling wife I love so darn much.