December 17, 1943

My Dearest Darling Wife,

Hello Honey, how is my darling little wife. Awful awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Well dolly no mail again today but I sure hope I get some sweet letters tomorrow. This is three days now that there hasn’t been any mail but you know how it gets tied up honey. Gee darling your letters are so darn wonderful and so sweet. They make me so darn happy and make me feel so darn swell darling. Honey dear there isn’t another person in this world that writes so sweet letters as my darling little wife does, gee but they are precious. Honey I sure hope you are getting my mail all right now. You are so darn sweet and I love you so awful, awful much.

I am feeling fine now dear and getting along all right. I have plenty of everything now dear. Well dolly it has been plenty hot today and it is really hot tonite to. I sure hope it cools off a little in the next hour or so, or it will be plenty hot sleeping tonite. I sure hope it is nice at home now dear and not to cold. Boy Honey it would sure be wonderful if I was there to help keep you warm. I sure will when I get home darling. We will be so darn happy and everything will be so wonderful when we are back in each others arms dear. Well I am plenty tired again tonite Honey, I made that same try again today and are these roads ever rough. It takes me over three hours to go one way, a little over forty miles. I take a few ton truck and a eight ton trailer so you can see that is a pretty good job. I think I have to go again tomorrow to. I sure hope you aren’t working to hard now dear and not working any overtime.

Well dolly I sure hope you have your Christmas shopping all done by now. That sure is a big job for you by yourself darling and now you have so many presents to send away from home. Gee darling I sure hope I am back in your sweet arms so I can help you do our shopping next year. We always have so much fun when ever we go shopping Honey and we always got a lot done to. Honey our first shopping tour when I get back home is going to be to get us our new outfits. It will be so darn swell darling and it will be the first time for us to be with each other when we bought a complete new outfit. Honey remember when we went shopping a couple of times right before I left. We sure had a swell time and darling it will be so wonderful now that we are really man and wife.

Honey dear this is Friday nite December the seventeenth and it was seven years ago tonite that we had our first date. Seven years of real heaven to me darling and over fifteen months of that married to the sweetest little girl in the world. Darling seven years ago tonite we little thought that we would be married like we are now and so darn happy. I never will forget that nite dear, gee but it was bad but we just had to have a date together so we could talk together and be by ourselves. I think we decided the first nite that we would go steady together dear. Remember the little picture you gave me of yourself dear. Gee but I was proud of that and I nearly wore it out looking at it the next two days and then I got to see you in person again and talk the next morning at school. Honey dear our love for each other grows stronger every day of this past seven years and will always grow stronger. I know I have the most perfect and most precious little wife in the world darling and I am so thankful to God for giving me you Honey. Darling I am so darn lonesome for you and want to see you so darn bad, I think about you day and nite Honey and I look at your sweet pictures all the time darling. I know god hears our prayers and will answer them and bring us together as soon as possible dear. Honey dear this is our second time to be away from each other for a long period of time and I sure hope and pray it is the last time. Gee darling I always started looking for you as soon as I got to school in the morning and if you wasn’t there, well I might as well went home cause I was sure worried about my sweetheart. Remember when I used to take you home at nite Honey after school, gee but it was all so swell. Everything will really be wonderful now darling that we really own each other.

I love you so awful, awful much darling and Honey you know I always will. You are so darn precious and so wonderful in every way dearest. Honey dear it will be so darn wonderful when I can put my arms around you and press my lips against yours. I’ll bet we never let go either Honey. And darling after seven years of real heaven all I can say is I love you more every day and you know I always will sweetest.

Well dolly I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now dear. I’ll be looking for your sweet letters now dear. Please be awful careful now dearest and take good care of yourself dear. Remember chin up and always happy dear. Tell all hello Honey.

Love and more love is all I can say dear.

Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife.