10-29-45

Dear Bill,

Dick and I want to thank you for the anniversary gift (It was really swell.) I received from you and Emily. I am sorry you couldn’t be here but maybe next year it will be different and we can all be together. Dick and I went to the Aragon. Boy, it was crowded. I haven’t been there in three years. Henry King and his orchestra was up there. Kay Kyser is going to be up there for one night. (Try and get in.)

How are you coming along? I hear you are a cook now. Boy, you are doing everything from soup to nuts. But then it might make the time go faster.

Well, we changed the time back Saturday night. Now it gets dark at 5 o’ clock.

I just got through talking with your mother and mine. She invited us for dinner Friday because it is your father’s birthday.

As you probably know my mother is staying with my uncle. I think she likes it a lot. I call her everyday because I think she gets lonesome. Dick and I are going there for dinner tomorrow night.

At the end of this week I will know if I got a job matron or not, as my boss’s assistant with a ten cent raise. The only thing is I have to give orders. I don’t think I shall like that very much because it is a very easy way to lose friends. And most of them are in my department. If the job was going to someone else they would probably jump at the chance to give other people orders. It isn’t in me to tell somebody (except my husband) else what to do but I hope I can overcome that a bit.

Well take care of your self. Dick sends his regards to you.

Our love,

Elaine and Dick