Have you gotten the picture or, a letter from Mom? I love you. Friday Night 8:00
7/24/42
Dearest Elaine:
Here comes another letter your way and the writing is going to be worse (if possible) than usual for I have my foot locker on my bunk and am trying to write in the dog-gondest position you ever saw.
I just got back from town about an hour ago and a place for the dead it is. I really don’t know why I even go in there but I have to do something or go completely batty. I’m so very blue and lonely this evening. Even more so than usual honey and that’s saying something. If we could only have a place to go and dance once in a while it would be so much better. But we can’t even have that or anything. About the only recreation we ever have is the show and I am so tired of them by now that it takes are unusually good one to get me near the place. Even then the seats are so darned hard that you can hardly sit still.---But enough of my kicking- there is nothing we can do but make the best of it and grin.
I got your letter of the 17th Wednesday and it was so very sweet. Wish I could get like that every day, or even better- be able to have you close enough so that you could tell it all to me and not have to write it. Just keep them camping darling and I’ll never be able to thank you enough. Your letters mean more to me than anything else that I could get up here. However I have the highest hopes that I can come back to you before so very long and start out on the long road to making up lost time with you. Incidentally I promise not to bite when I move into Lady’s Place. Do you think I can make a better-warmer up- than she? I certainly hope so for I intend to stay for a long time and to keep all of your affections for myself. Do you mind sweetheart? I could also use someone like you here to warm me up once in a while. Would you consider taking the job? (your hired) – Your wages will have to be kisses (no rationing in prospect) and also all the loving that you can beat- (unlimited possibilities there too). Do you think that they will be okay or do you require something else more concrete? Oh sweet when I think of having you in my arms again I can hardly wait until I get back to you. I guess that if I could be there right now that I’d just about squeeze you to death the moment that I saw you. How would you like to have your phone ring and have someone tell you to come to the docks as there were someone there to see you? Then when you did show up you’d be grabbed up all at once and be kissed breathless. Like the idea? If so I’ll try to make it come true sometime. You can bet your life that I will be coming back to you when if it takes a year and honey I’m sure that you’re the first person that I will see when I do get there. I love and want you so much sweet.
I think that we will have a baseball team here before long and then maybe we won’t have so much trouble finding a way to pass away our evenings. I surely hope so for I really like to play it and I did play quite a lot in school and for an industrial team at home. Had an awful lot of fun at it but I guess I’ll never get the chance again if this war doesn’t end before long. I also like basketball and earned a few letters for it in school. They are trying to get a league started between the different outfits and we’ll sure to be in it. However I’d be glad to never see it start if I could only get started back to you.
What have you been doing lately that would be of interest to me? Have you been dancing to any bands or anything that I’d like to do? But of course what I’d like to do best. To start in kissing you and just keep it up until you had to yell stop or be smothered. I want to see you so badly darling. You’ll be so swell when if I have forgotten what it feels like to have someone you have in your arms. You know I had a heck of a time trying to keep from almost crushing you that last night and I didn’t have any right at all. But look out when I do get to see you again.
One of the endless re-hasings of the war is going on just a couple of bunks down the line and they’re making so much noise that I can hardly concentrate of course there are a couple of radios going and that of course is help. Darling I’m so very much gone over you and the idea of quick marriage sure sounds good to me. We’ll sure try to make it quick. You’ll probably not even have time to say “yes” or “no”.
Write to me soon dearest and I promise you that you’ll have all my love. Especially for you. Remember the first time I kissed you- I do!
Always,
Paul