Paris

Saturday, February 24, 1945

Dearest Mary,

I think I must have about all my mail by this time. Yesterday I received thirteen letters: [September] 1- your card from the philharmonic concert; [October] 1, [October] 19, [October] 20, 24, 27, [November] 14, 15, 16, 20; your beautiful Christmas card from [November] 24. I had a letter from Boh Celley [November] 11 and from Jack [August] 3. [We had] some windfall today. I received two letters from you [December] 30, and a very recent one [February] 15 with the Valentine, which you wrote in school [with] the poem. I’m sorry I didn’t receive them before. There were so many things which you must have been wondering for a long time. Now I know that you had quite a time deciding about your new coat. I know, too, that you finally decided on the Winchester instead of the fuscia. See Bum, I was unaware of the super letter which I wrote soon after I received Jules’ package. From what you said it must have made you laugh. I’m glad of that. Coming from Paris the other day, I felt the same as I did when I wore some of “The Follow Me” powder when we bought the perfume, the Frenchman must have thought we really liked it. [Regardless] of our protests, [he doused] our necks with two or three samples. Yoo! Hoo! Can you picture us making our way along the streets with such tantalizing [and] provocative odor emanating from our persons? Life’s like that though.

I didn’t write yesterday, Bum. I was out for guard, so I had to skip another day.

We saw a moving picture [tonight]: “Strike Up the Band” [with] Mickey Roony [and] Judy Garland. [It was] about two years old I guess. [It was] not too good but alright as a way to pass a few hours. Bum, I’m sure we saw “King’s Row” together. It couldn’t have been any other girl, [since] the picture hasn’t been out very long. It must have been you. You’ve been the only one anyway. Bye Bum. Take care of yourself for me.

All our love always,

F.D.

[P.S.] [It’s] good to know you have the car in the snow. Sorry about all the ice.