Sunday, November 14, 1943

My dearest Hal,

I have not written you for several days and quite a lot has happened since my last letter to you. Thursday night the teachers all went to town to dinner at the Arcadia and to see a show. I haven’t done anything like that since you left. No, I was about to forget that Bob took the whole family to dinner and the show in Waynesboro while he was here on his last furlough. We enjoyed it very much because seeing a show is quite a rarity since we have to save our gas for more important things.

Of course the teachers are the usual crowd you can expect but I like them all well enough and we saw “Action in the North Atlantic” with Humphrey Bogart. I could have enjoyed it if I hadn’t been thinking of your trip just when the sub-menace was at the worse. There are times when the awful terror I lived leaves then comes back to bother me but I have almost succeeded in forgetting about it. Much as I want to see you I would never willingly give my consent to you making such a trip again.

Saturday, I went to town to have my teeth cleaned. “Pete” Lasley wants to know if you have had any trouble with you bridge work.

I saw Nana and Sally and Eliz. “Nana” is looking right much better. I gave her a check for $50.00. She said Billy had sent her a hundred but she finished pay Dr. Payne’s bill and didn’t have much left so I thought she would need it. “The more you have the more you spend” is certainly true of me. I don’t seem to have as much now as I did before I started teaching. I have gotten Daddy some more of the capsules he is supposed to take. They really do help him but he won’t take them because he feels he can’t afford them. I am having mother’s feet worked on. I am helping, I mean Peggy is helping too. No one will ever know how they have stood by me since you have been gone. When I see how some wives are left I know how truly fortunate I have been in having a family to fall back on.

Eliz. and Sally were telling me of Bit’s and Polly difficulties. I did not know anything about it until you wrote. It seems a shame to have Bit’s in such a stew at this time. I gather that Polly has treated him like a dog and he is scared to death she will divorce him. He can certainly forgive a lot. I am glad my husband and I have no differences. Darling, I go weak at the very thought of divorces. I guess you know you are stuck with me for life. You couldn’t get rid of me even if you have tried.

I don’t believe Eliz. and Sally will do anything about you leave. They seem to feel that if you could come home you could do something about getting a promotion. I love you just much if you were a buck private and I know you deserve it but I don’t worry about things I can’t help.

I’ll write again tomorrow night as I am not quite thru-

All my love,

Peggy