0.003………………………………Tuesday- 2:00am

7/28/42

Sweetheart:

I received two letters form you today and was I ever glad to get them. They were swell I’ll have you know even though I can never get enough of them. The more of them I get the more I want so you must keep up the good work.

I intended writing to you Sunday but I finally went fishing in the afternoon and didn’t get back until almost 12 that night. So this is my first letter to you this week. However there will be more of them before the week is over. You see the Salmon are running now and I really have caught some swell ones. They seem up to about 10lbs and sure do put up a swell scrap. I am working every 12 hours out of every 48 now so I have lots of spare time and am spending most of it fishing as I haven’t any thing else to do. Wish you were here, we could have so very much fun when I a little cooperation too. Like the idea, my sweet?

I’m in a muddle as to what to write. There are so few things I can tell you about this place that I just about have to fill my letters with just plans and dreams for you and I. Of course that is an interesting sullied but I could write much better ones if I could tell you what goes on here.

Darling I want to see you so very badly. The moon has been full and very mellow these last few nights and it makes me so very blue. Just remembering what it would be like at home now and how swell it would be if you were only with me. (Honest I’m homesick) I had a letter from Wayne Ferril a friend of mine in Newark and he was telling me how swell the Lake was and naming some of the bands that have been there this season. Like J. Dorsey, Phil Harris, Glen Miller and the best. Golly we could have fun dancing to them. You see my dear, one of the ball room’s names, “The Pier” is built right out on the water and it’s really swell. Cool breezes blow there all the time and you never get too warm. I’d like to have you there tonight and really dance until we were off duty. I guess though that the next best thing is just writing to you and dreaming up things for us to do when I do get back. Incidentally though sweet I haven’t heard any thing more about my getting to come back to flight school. This army is so darned slow that it may take months. I do know that I will get to go eventually but gee how I wish I could start today.

If this hot keeps up I’m going swimming even if I do half freeze to death. This is the first time since I was a kid that I haven’t been all brown and nicely tanned from swimming by this time of year. If I get to go to California though we will sure make up for some lost time. I sure hope so for it would be so swell.

Honey, as soon as I can see the Captain I will get that negative and send it to you. I can’t see why you want to get it engorged though for it is awful. Honestly I was almost afraid to send it because it was so bad. I do hope you like the photo though for I wanted you to have it so badly. I wish though I could be serenaded and kissed in person instead of by proxy. I’d like it much better and would enjoy it so much. I think too that I could add both draped with exhaustion. I would like to dance with you—Period!

I hope I can come back during the coming month if I don’t honey, I’ll be there sooner or later and I’ll try to let you know if possible when I will arrive. I sure hope it can be soon though for I want you so very much. If I do get a furlough we will spend it in W.VA and Ohio as a honeymoon even if we can’t start until Xmas. OK.

Dream of me sweet and pray I’m on my way back soon.

Especially for you,

Paul

Miss You More than ever.

Want you More than ever.

Love you. I can’t find words to express how much.

I’ll write soon and a lot.

Could use some snaps of you.

P.