North Africa

Sept. 25, 1943

Letter # 12.

 

My darling:

            Am well as ever sweetheart and I hope that you are also.  I feel in sort of a lonesome mood tonight and like writing to you.  And I wanted this letter to be in my own handwriting to you, dear in a letter which you would receive as such rather than by a photographed piece of paper.

            Oh, honey, I am dreadfully lonesome for you, and it seems especially so this evening.  Each day that goes by I think of you and pray that the next will bring us closer together.  I need you so much and, darling, how I long to hold you close to me in my arms and kiss you.  I look at your picture in front of my and then close my eyes and think that you are close to me and that your lips are pressed to mine and when I open them again it is to realize that is was just a vision of past memories so dear to us both.  That I pray to God that it shall be so again and that that time will come soon so that we shall once again be together and I can hold you tight and tell you how much I love you.  Darling, I feel that it will not be too long, either.  When that time comes we shall pray that we will have many long years of happiness together.

            It seems that his long separation has made out love even stronger and has bound us together even more as one.  May God grant that it will not be too long a separation.

            Darling I received two more letters from you today.  They were as welcome as ever.  And perhaps they made me somewhat more pensive as you mentioned out gong to New York City for the first part of our second honeymoon.  You mentioned those memories that it holds for us on the first part of our honeymoon and on the last Sunday together on April 26th last year.  Yes how well I remember those times as I sit and think.  The picture of them is very vivid in my memory as I have lived them over and over many times this past year and a half. 

            I am so glad the cards and my leftist note arrived so soon.  I am told that air mail letters are going back to the States again that way now, so I hope this letter does also.  If that is the case I may write you one regular airmail per week as I used to do.  I see I forgot to tell you what letters I have received they are your #6, Sept 10th and #7, Sept 11th. 

            So I’m glad to hear you and your mother made out so well on the opening night of the bond drive.  You surely did fine and the Italians came thru very excellently.  Mother wrote that “would have made some of us Yankees ashamed to see how they were buying bonds.”

            Yes, dearest, I would like to go to N.Y.C. the first part of our second honeymoon as you suggested.  Then we could just do as we pleased, both night and day, with our breakfast in bead if we wished, and I’m sure we shall.  You remember Scranton + the N.Y.C. and on the boat, don’t you.  But of course you do, so I shouldn’t ask, but to recall fine memories of seven years ago.

            I have the birthday list but just forgot to look at it for any birthday’s.  That is why I forgot grandma Westcolt’s birthday. 

            We should go to all the places in NYC that you mentioned in Sept 11th’s letter plus all the others that we know so well and wish hold fond memories of the past trips there.  Was glad to hear you finally will have a new H.S. Secretary in your office.  You all must have been busy there by yourselves.

            I went to the movie this evening at the Red Cross Theater to see Sonia Henie in “Iceland”.  It was a very good picture + well worth seeing.  Did you see it by chance?  Monday night if I can I shall go and see W. Powell and Myrna Loy and something or other.  I’ve forgotten the name now.  Tomorrow night I shall go to the Brunet’s I guess.  I have tomorrow afternoon off and if the spirit moves, I’ll write a few letters.  It has not been good for getting a tan of late so I’ve not been up on the roof as I did in the summer.

            Well my darling, I must draw this letter to a close as it is getting a little late, although we set out clocks back an hour tonight.  We shall only be 5 hours ahead of you starting tomorrow.

            Sweetheart I love you so much.  How I wish I could tell you that close to me in my arms.  And I’ll close to see a prayer that it won’t be long, with a kiss to seal this letter, darling.

                                                                                                                        All my love,

                                                                                                                                    Carlton