19 October 1944

Thursday

Darling Lady,

Your first letter since your return came in yesterday and was I glad to get it. There has been a hurricane hanging around in the Caribbean for several days and as you know that always holds up the mail as the places do not fly during those threats. This one has been hanging in there and not moving much but this morning is predicted to pass over the Florida keys so I guess that flights will get back to normal starting about tomorrow. Cuba really caught it this time.

Darling I am suffering from a deuce of a head cold and can hardly breathe. In fact I should be in bed but am not. You know I fought one off just before seeing you and lo and behold as soon as I got back it started pestering me again. At last it has caught up with the old man and do I feel punk. I have been taking APC pills and getting what rest I can. If it is not better by tomorrow I think that I will give up and go to bed as that is the best cure of all. I don’t understand this continuous string of minor ailments. I never before have been plagued with them outside of a cold now and then.

George L—is so old today and they are giving him a suprise birthday party at the Union Club tonight. I have had to beg off due to the cold and am glad of it for I hate Panamanian music and don’t drink so outside of paying my respects to George it would be a long evening. He doesn’t know it as yet and he will be surprised. He is the one General down here that is universally liked by all and I think that he should be proud that the small fry would go to the trouble of doing this for him.

I was sure glad to hear that you had a nice trip back home and that you were not “bumped” not even once. That was luck and I know that you were glad. That is a long ride from Florida to Texas by air and I know that you are glad it is done. (I am finished blowing again and is my snozoola sore!) If by any outside chance I can get my leave, it sure seems like a lost subject, I think that I will come by way of PAA straight to SA. I sure long for a site of those stomping grounds and am still disappointed at the way things turned out.

Darling I liked your letter and thanks many times for that wonderful love of yours. I know that you much that is it returned in full and then some. I too love you very much. I feel so darn punk and low I will close this and try to write at more length later dearest. Love and Kisses.

Edwin