Friday after-noon,

Dear John Milton:

It is very warm again after nearly two weeks of almost cold weather, so I guess will be fine for the trip your daddy and Uncle Bud and his family are taking to the cottage to-morrow to stay until Monday after-noon. I am not going, I'm staying here.

Your letter of the first, came in this morning and we are most pleased that you will have an opportunity to take up pilot training even the it is throwing you time for finishing a little longer off, and having something that you felt you had in your hands almost, snatched away from you, but never mind, make another start and I am glad the way you write, as to not being too set back, and ready to take on again. Here's hoping this course will not be as long as you have already gone thru.

You must know without my saying, that I am terribly sorry that you will not get home on this go around, but that's something now to look forward to.

I am addressing you as usual, let us know if there is any difference.

Hope your money will come thru O.K. And that's alright as to letting us know, we haven't given it a thought.

John Milton I want to call your attention to a few misspelled words in this last letter. It may be that you were in a hurry, but don't try not to be in so much of a hurry when writing, to make these mistakes for it might be bad in some work you do down there. Learn to spell correctly in a hurry as well as wrong. Recommendation, you had reccommendation. You used the word month, and left the “h” off. The word “Wait” you spelled waite. This is all of the “lesson” for this time.

Mae Coffman just dropped in to leave a copy of a letter But wrote you last night, it is quite a nice letter and I hope you will get some benefit from his suggestions as well as a “boost” from his interest. He has seemed all along to be most interested and concerned, as to how you were doing.

I am interested in knowing what you will do about all those cloths you wrote us you had ordered, the officers cloths? All these questions we ask from time to time ask run thru our heads as just a matter of wondering, and also, wanting to know from a stand point of being better informed, and not, simply idle curiosity, so if at any time you question in your own mind why we ask so many questions, please remember what I have just said, it's that we want to know because some times people ask us questions pertaining to your training and we wouldn't know unless you had told us.

Well, I guess for one more time I will stop, and it is time for supper.

Good night and best wished, good luck and love from,

Mother.

Another question, Son, are you kept pretty busy while waiting for the report from Washington? You said the furlough “was definitely out.” But would it be possible to get a leave of absence to next week?

Your mother has written you a good letter and I haven't much to add, except to say that, “your trouble are our troubles and your joys are our joys.”

Dad