Fort Richardson, Alaska

Thursday, March 1st

My Darling Wife:-

I received some mail today, dearest. One from my sweet wife, one from Mother and one from Conwell. I still haven’t received one from you with my new APO [American Post Office]. Your last one was written on the 23^rd .

Honey, Cornwell and Butts are at Attenbury Indiana in the M.P.’s. Shirk must not have been discharged. Cornwell said that he had just pulled in there that day. I can’t imagine Shirk being a M.P. I can hear him b*tching now.

Dearest, what are you trying to do to me by sending me pictures like that. Are you trying to make me have wet dreams? No! Honey I don’t want you to buy a night gown like that one or any other one. You know what kind of gown I want you to wear. (I wonder if I would make one more mistake)

The same kind of gown you always did wear when you slept with your husband. Of course dearest, you may buy one to hang on the foot of the bed in case of fire. It doesn’t have to be black. Does it dearest?

Was glad to hear that you received my bond, dear. Don’t expect the first $25 one too soon.

So help me dearest- Hell I don’t know what I can do about it but I am going to do something. I am talking about your figures dear. If I receive one more letter from you containing your budget, I am not going to finish reading the letter. So if you do use any more figures you better put them in the P.S. Understand?

No honey, I am not mad. I realized you are a woman and can’t make up your mind. You know dearest I would rather see you go home but if you want to stay in Washington it is OK with me.

Honey, you’ll never know how much I wish I could be with you. Then we could decide on things together. But we must both realize that we won’t be able to do that for some time to come. This damn war is far from over dearest. I may be away from you for three years.

Honey, I am being transferred to an outfit I don’t like. I’ll still be in the engineers but attached to the Quartermasters. One of the fellows saw my orders today. I am the only man on the order with a rating. So, it looks like a labor outfit to me. We are going to Adak and supposed to fly. I surely will get settled that much faster.

I looked to leave here tonight but no such luck. Maybe I should say I was hoping to leave here tonight because I am on KP [Kitchen Patrol] again tomorrow. Our company is growing smaller and smaller. If I stay here much longer I’ll be on KP [Kitchen Patrol] every other day.

Honey, please don’t start worrying when you don’t hear from me. I may leave here by boat. Then it will be nearly a month before you receive my first letter.

Dearest, please don’t worry about my living conditions. Everything is ok. Very little entertainment but I can get along without it.

Goodnight dear. I’ll be seeing you in my dreams.

I love you, dear.

I adore you, darling.

Yours forever, Bob.