22 July 1948

Dear Mom & Dad,

I just got back from lunch so I thought I’d better drop you a few lines.

I wrote and told you I would be home the weekend of the 31^st and 1^st, but now I’m not sure. We might get paid the 30^th but then again we probably won’t be paid until the 2^nd. If we get paid the 30^th I’ll probably will be home.

I guess you know they raised the train fare again, so now it costs $9.30 round trip.

This next pay day I need to buy a pair of G.I. blue trousers because I won’t be able to wear the ones I have one day. The seat’s so thin you can see through them. I also have to buy a peacoat because the one I have is shot, and also I’d like to have one for when I get out.

The personnel office called me up the other day and told me that I was rated second class the 16^th of July so that makes me a little happy.

Well I’d better close now and get back to work.

I hope by now you feel better now, Mom, and the heat isn’t getting you down. See you soon. All my love

Alfred