February 26, 1944

My dearest Hal,

I seem to write to you from many strange places. Quite a number of my letters have been written as I waited in Doctor’s offices. This time I am at Dr. T’s office, having brought Mother and Daddy and Peggy up here. Daddy has to take his rheumatism shots and Mother and Peggy have to have their sinuses drained. Sam and I just came along for the ride.

Peggy usually goes to Dr. T (he married Eliz. I) but since she did not go to work today she came up here instead. Of course it isn’t possible to get much gas so we have to make one trip for all.

I think it is absolutely disgusting when every body in the family is going to the doctor for something. I wonder if I shall ever see them all really well again. There is no doubt that Sam and I have both been very much benefited by our allergy treatments. I suppose however that we may have to keep them up more or less for the rest of our lives. Sometimes people are cured and in many cases the trouble is controlled very successfully. I believe that Dr. B feels our trouble can be controlled, he even thinks Sam may be cured completely because we started the treatments when he was so young.

We are supposed to go back to him for a check-up in April but I thought maybe we would put it off a month or two in hopes that you would be here. I have an idea that you will want to spend some of your time in Richmond, seeing Nana, Elizabeth and Wilbur. No one can make long visits these days because of food rationing, you are lucky if you can stretch your paints for a weekend if you have many visitors at a time. I have an idea that we will be very busy in the few days you are here.

We will want to go with you when you leave and shall have to pack up. Mother and Peggy laugh and laugh at me because I am already trying to make plans. You must admit it will be a little hard to do but nothing no matter how hard would be too much trouble if we can just stay with you. I am so glad to hear that you will be able to ask for duty in the East. I have wondered about the big quarter master depot outside Richmond. It would mean a great deal to your mother if you could be stationed where you could see her often. I want to be near enough to my family to see them once in awhile but I am afraid we are wishing for the moon. Oh well, they tell me Texas and California are nice places too and we’ll be together. That is the thing that makes me happier then I have been for two years.

We have already been here for an hour and still the doctor hasn’t come so I have probably rambled along until you’re tired.

I want so much to talk to you. Letters seem so unsatisfactory when you want to talk to someone. I do believe, as I have said before, that these months since I have known you were coming have been longer then ever. I am so terribly anxious for the time to pass quickly and it just drags along as though it would never pass at all.

I am in a mess about my school. The girl who has had it these past two weeks has not gotten along very well and she left Friday and isn’t coming back. Mr. C asked me to take it for two more weeks so he could try to get a girl from Madison College to take it the rest of the year. I simply can’t continue unless things let up at home. I don’t want it anyway because it is such a lot of grief and a thankless job if ever I saw one. Mr. C insists that I will not be able to go with you so I might just as well plan to teach here next year, but I know I am going and even if you had to send us home again I don’t want to be teaching.

I believe Sam really likes school. He is getting along all right. He will not make a grade this year of course but we did not expect him to. He will have some very good training for next year. I hope we will not have to move around while he is in school but of course we can expect it I guess.

Sam is really excited about your coming home. He thinks we are going back to Lillington but I doubt that, don’t you? I don’t really mind where we are located. I hope it will be in the south or west if we can’t be near home. I don’t think I should care for the north. I believe you should be where it is warm for a while at least.

Darling, just come quickly and we can work out all the details later, seeing you is the important thing.

All my love,

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