Day Book, N.E.

October 18, 1943

 

Hello Wife,

 

            It seems as though I must write you, after seeing you Saturday night. Boy you looked like you were fresh out of Hollywood, on honey moon or something. That would have been all right if I could have been the lucky guy. I looked like I were fresh out of a brier patch. Louise I would like to have a picture of you to sit up in my bed room to look at when I am thinking of you. You know I think about you are the sweetest girl I ever knew. I just answered a letter to a girl at Mars Hill as pretty as you. But she nor no one else I ever knew has so pleasing a personality. Louise I guess you think I am pretty silly and babyish the way I ran out Saturday night, but I had an idea that you had a date with that boy in the gray overcoat. Well all lovers guard sometimes honey. I would like to know the next time you spend a weekend in town. I would like to come and stay with you if be it possible. The boys at Clarmont said they wish you would come to Clarmont to school. They said we were good matches because we got sweethearts where ever we went, that is a pretty good name for both of us isn’t it? Louise I have three girls to work for at Clarmont in that beauty contest and they said that if I went to town and cheated on you they would hell ways me. You see I am between the devil and the deep blue sea. If yours is on Halloween and ours is too I can’t come, but I’m sure you won’t be mad, will you. Well I had better hush the silly stuff so answer with a letter as long as a book of nonsense. It will be a long time before we have a basketball game. “So remember, keep smiling.”

“Love” always,

Iky Lipton

 

P.S.- If you can read this you can read shorthand because it looks as scribbly