November 26,

My Dearest Hal,

I got your wire Saturday and I do hope by now you have gotten some of the letters I have sent you. I am going to try to send you a wire in return this afternoon from Waynesboro. They tried to send E.F.M. from Stuarts Draft but I think none of them ever went through. I hope I can get you some word because I know you must be worried and I hate that. I have written you every other day so I hoped you would have lots of mail waiting for you when you landed.

Honey, I have just came home from Waynesboro where I went to have my teeth cleaned and I found out it was impossible to send you a wire because you have an A.P.O. # that has five numerals. At the Western Union office they have codes for 3 and 4 numeral A.P.O. but none for chose with five. I hope I have the right address. Your letters come through just fine and I check the address each time. On some of the letters I did not put the organizations so that may by the trouble. On your last letter from California you simply gave your A.P.O. so that was all I put on some of the letters. I have put your Army serial number on each letter so I hope you will get them all eventually.

The news is very dull. So far I’m just waiting but I do not think it will be much longer. I have gotten along very well though of I haven’t been very comfortable these last weeks. I have gotten so tired of waiting.

In one of your letters you asked me about the operations I have to have after the baby comes. I hope sincerely I can avoid one and if rest and proper care can do it I won’t have to have one, but both Dr. Haas and Dr. Thomas have told me that I have a “prolapsed womb” and that I would probably have to have an operation. Dr. Thomas said if I was very careful and had a month’s absolute rest I might get by without having one. I’m surely going to try but I know I would rather have the operation then to have the backache and feel miserable. I want to be able to live a happy, normal life with you when you come home and I don’t want anything to stand in the way. You are not to worry as I will not do anything about it until you are home if you like. I thought I had to tell you what Dr.Haas said but I didn’t know until I came home and talked to Dr. Thomas just what it meant. Many women have to have such an operation and it is not too serious unless it is put off and the condition neglected. Let’s hope we can manage to avoid it at all. I will be able to take things very easy here after the baby comes so I hope for the best.

I know you will be surprised to know that Peggy is giving up her job. She has been forced to do it because “Pete” Burnett is home and wants to work in the office. After Peggy’s working there for five years and never having the slightest complaint from anyone “Pete” comes down to work and tells her that her work is most unsatisfactory. I thin it nearly killed Peggy but she said she would like to resign before she was asked to leave. Mr. Burnett is of course sorry to see her go or so he says but he will do whatever “Pete” tell him to do. Of course Pete expects to be the next county clerk so he must have a nice fat job and stand in line to be elected. Did I hear you say politics in this country are rotten? I really hurts when it hits in your own family. Goodness knows Peggy needs a rest so we hope she will not get another job right away. She will work until Saturday and then she plans to be here to help take care of me. I think we can manage to get along very well for awhile and maybe she will have something better than she has now when she does get another job. Last of all the news is that the inside of the bank burned Thanksgiving night and they are operating under quite a handicap up there. Nothing in the vault was damaged. Of course all the office equipment was ruined and things are in an awful mess but it could have been much worse. No one has any idea how the fire started but it had been burning sometime before it was discovered.

Darling, I miss you terribly. I wish you could be here with me but know I can’t have everything. I was interested to have your letter telling where the various ones were going. I do hope you will have a good assignment. Please don’t be careless. I don’t trust the people among whom you must live and I can’t bear for you to take risks.

Sam and I are going to be might lonesome for you from now on. We got spoiled having you here last year. I hope we’ll soon have some more of the same kind of spoiling.

All my love,

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