Saturday

19 Aug 1944

Darling Diane,

What a day and how often I have thought of you during it. I have spent the day moving back here to the old base from which I started out. Back in the same house, the same room and the same room mates. Eating in the same mess and though I have been back but a few hours it feels as though I had never left.

You know how it is. Getting all the nick-knacks together and trying to remember what is in that and where that is etc. I am now all moved and have had a supper at the mess. That is one thing that is a real treat to get back to the mess. It has not been so good where I have been though we started our own. It didn’t hold up in preperational quality and I sort of longed for some decent food. I will get it over here thank goodness.

I have finished straightening out my room and making the bed. I even got down and scrubbed the bathroom floor and all the tile work. I have been well trained. It was filthy and it will probably be two or three days before I can arrange for dome one to do it. After having been with my darling all these years I could not stand it the way it was so “at it myself”. I have had good training too. I thought of us during the entire time. Would you like that there and would the cleaning suit you, I even went back and gave a couple of licks over again for I was afraid that it would not please you. I am not kidding. Gee darling if you only knew how constantly you are a part of my movements and the things that I do. And how I mentally get your approval or your ideas on the things I am doing. I really live with you a great deal even though we are separated so far. I love you so very very much my dear and long so to be spending these years with you. Gosh what a privilege what a wonderful thing it is to have you for my own. I am rich, rich beyond words because of it. And if you only knew how I desire you tonight darling mine. Those heavenly moments that I spend with you when we are so very close to one another when we are one person living one life breathing one breathe together----it is hard my dear to want to be with you as much as I do and know that it will be sometime yet before I am. I love you dear heart, my beautiful, beautiful wife.

Jimmy is back this PM and has just begun to give me all the news of his meeting in Frisco. The school is out very definitely for me and under the circumstances I am glad. He saw practically all of my old friends and classmates. All back from the theaters for this conference. Things are happening but from the news he brings there is no telling just when we may expect the finish. It can be sometime yet no one from the active spots is willing to predict an early finish and they seem to know. I t is possible but can be prolonged under certain circumstances. We are really giving them hammer and tongs but the internal information is not yet known as far a Germany is concerned. Some seem to think that they may even hold out for another year, that it is possible for them to do so. The boys in the in the Southwest Pacific are still having their troubles getting enough of what they want to do the job but it is coming and when it does somebody is going to really catch it.

I enjoyed you excerpts for Irene’s letter. I always seem to be glad to get them for she certainly puts the commonplace news on an interesting plane. Has she heard from her son? There have been an awful lost of causalities over there and I hoe that he has not been caught. The Dorr’s seem to have gotten a nice spot for themselves and I suppose that you will be seeing them sometime soon as that is on your beaten track now and again. Give them my best.

I forgot to tell you dear, the Barbadian maid and laundress has taken a great fancy to you thru your photo. She has asked all about you and is very worried that we have no children. She says that my name will die out. She seems to think that that is a great calamity among men to have there name die out. She especially spoke of your smile in the picture and told me that I must be very happy. She’s telling me! I have spent quite a spell looking at that photo myself and just now it is smiling down at me from the head of my bed. Hello sweet how’s for a kiss? (That is not enough)(One more, thanks)

Its nearly eleven darling and I am worn to a frazzle so I am just before being off to bed. This letter will be a day late but I brought my typewriter home so that I could write it before I retired and after I finished this day’s chores but I don’t know whether it will go out tomorrow or not. I usually try to get them in on Saturdays in the morning so that they will. As I wrap myself away for the night I sure hope that I have all kinds of dreams of you my Diane si I will say once again I love you my darling and Adios till later

Edwin