June 7, 1942
Dear Anna:
Received your most affectionate letter and I am very glad to hear form you and the family.
I had to send the camera back because we were not allowed to carry it with us on our way to this camp. I sincerely hope there is no hard feeling about it because it was a case where I had to do it to meet with the rules and regulations of the army. I sent it to Em’s house because I figured there might not be any one at home to receive it.
I hope you mother is well and had a nice trip to the shore and I hope everything is going along smoothly.
As you will see from my new address I am at another camp so far everything seems to be O.K.
They gave us some encouraging information as soon as we arrived some of which was there will not be any furloughs issued for us and as I understand it this is supposed to be our permanent outfit wherever we go and I also understand our next move can be in any combat area foreign or otherwise.
If Em received the films and developed them and if any of them turned out. I would like if it is possible to have 2 or 3 prints of 3 each picture of which I am not in as some of the boys in those pictures are with me and they would like to see them and tell Em to keep the negatives in case I want more.
This seems to be a much better place than the one I was in before and all I have to do is look out of my windows and see lake Michigan so from that you can see I am quiet a distance away from home.
I sincerely hope you are well and taking good care of yourself and I am always thinking of you and I would like to have something small from you to carry with me at all times as a token of remembrance in order that I may feel that you are always with me no matter where I am.
Remember me to everybody and lets hope for the best.
Always yours,
Tony
P.S. The new address will be as follows:
Private Anthony O. Farnese
443rd
Make sure you put on everything as I have it.