My Darling Wife

                        Oh Darling – I got your air mail letter this morning dated Feb. 1st, Tuesday 800/pm and I don’t think you’ll even write a letter better than that one.  –Its’ the most thrilling letter you’ve written.  You’re just a Darling.  I just came back from dinner & can hardly wait to answer your letters.  I told you in a previous letter that I didn’t approve of you working in beer joints since you’re now my wife, but since you can make enough money of the Pinewood I say that will be fine.  –Don’t work more than two weeks if you can help it Darling.  –The sooner you get here the better.

            There is only one thing I don’t approve of so please listen close Pheety – I like Peg a lot & I think she’s a swell kid, but I don’t approve of some of the things she’s in the habit of doing & the places she goes:  -Please don’t let her drag –

 

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-you around to those crummy bars such as the Stag & Owl Bar & others such environment.  –Don’t tell they’re nice places cause I know better.  You’re my wife (a married woman) and you should respect yourself & also me enough to keep out of that environment unless you’re with me.  –Please make me more happy by staying out of them.  –There’s no question you know I trust you Darling.  So you know that’s not my reason for wanting you to stay clear of them.

            I note to think of my wife loitering where men are constantly on the move for a woman & you know I’m right.  – I trust you but you shouldn’t put yourself in a place where you’ll be pestered.  –This is just advice from your husband who cares about you.  Love brings this on & I’m sure you’re glad & feel this way about it.  –When I’m with you – that’s a different story, no one’s going to interfere.

            I know your mother will be very lonesome with you & Betty both gone.  –I can see in a way why –

 

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-Your mother doesn’t want you to come, but still there’s another side of the story which should be looked upon the most.  –You’re my wife now & you can do as you please.  –I may go over seas in three months or six months.  –Say that I’d never come back from across & that you hadn’t been here to live with me.  During this crisis loners should be together as much as conditions can permit & I’m sure your mother should consider such a circumstance.

            She can’t have all of you home, that would be selfish.  She’ll have your Dad & I’ll have you.  What more could people want.  –Of course you’re her baby & I understand in a way how she would feel but she shouldn’t ever expect you to stay home though.  Maybe she thinks they might need your help around home.  If that’s the case I know dam well you’re coming to New Orleans.  Of course Pheety you shouldn’t work at all but be very careful at the Pinewood.  –If you beg in to lunch – quit working right away.  While you’re working there please-

 

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-keep me informed how you feel & how you’re getting along.  I know I worry & you should understand that I have a reason to worry since your operation.

            Darling I’m glad you noticed in one of my letters where I told you I was writing you before & went to the show that nite – Proving to you that my mind wasn’t just on having a good time.  That I thought of you first.  –Wait til you get the letter previous to this one where & gave you hell for not writing the nite you went to your cousins house.  You stated yourself that was the reason you didn’t write me that nite.  Now who did you think of first.  Boy, oh boy – you just contradicted what you told me in your letter.  ha ha.  the jokes on you Pheety.

            Yes Darling I remember all the little things we used to do, especially the cute way about you Pheety.  –I can’t remember anything I did that was cute.  –You’re the only one I ever paid attention to, not myself.  –The nite-

 

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-you slept on the floor was about the cutest thing you ever did.  I was just trying to think why you did.  Did we have an argument, a fight or was it one of those nice smelling stinks I let go under the covers.

            Darling your letter is the most enjoyable letter I’ve ever read & the sweetest letter any girl has ever written me (before your time) most likely didn’t mean what they said, at least it wasn’t from their hearts.  –But you Pheety, I know it’s from the bottom of your heart.  Cause you’re my faithful loving wife & I know you love me so very much.

            Everyday Darling all I have on my mind is meeting that train when it pulls in.  –I can just picture you stepping off that train & me watching for you ready to jeer & pick you up.  What I wouldn’t do to you.  [edited for content]

Have to fall out now for drill Darling – I’ll finish your letter this evening & maybe I’ll get another letter from you in the afternoon mail.

 

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700/pm

There I am again Darling & what do you think, I got another letter from you today, the one dated Jan. 31, Mon. eve 1130/PM.  –Funny thing but I got the one you wrote Tuesday this morning & the one you wrote Tuesday this morning & the one you wrote Monday I got this afternoon.  I notice they’re both air mail but the second letter run around the first one somehow.

Darling this is another wonderful letter just like the one you wrote Tuesday.  Still so sweet & full of lovely things I just love to hear.

            Boy this is certainly good but I got results & am I enjoying it.  –I see you got my letter asking what you meant by “me making the best of it now that I’m in the Army.”  -I know that particular letter I wrote was lengthy & I was constantly preaching for an answer as to what you meant by that statement.  –I shouldn’t have ever mentioned it Pheety, but here’s why I did & please believe me Darling.

            I knew you didn’t mean for me to go out with other women but still be careful when I’m with them & knowing when to stop. –I understood your statement perfectly Darling.  –What I wrote in that letter was just bait to hear –

 

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-What your answer would be.  –I just wanted to hear you say once again how much you care about me in cases like that although I know you do care without you having to tell me.  –You may think I’m using this as an excuse for taking your statement wrong Darling, but you know me.  –I had to make something of it to get you going.  I’m just a big tease I guess.  –I never have to ask you how you want me to perform & what to do & where to go when I’m away from you Darling.  –I know you love me very much & care about me, so that takes in everything Darling.

            To prove to you I know you care for me.  –Do you remember the nite in the Hoffram when that girl kept winking of me til you got up & left & I picked you up of the Hopewell Dairy in you dad’s car.  –Talk about jealous & perhaps you’ve a reason to be in a case like that.  I’m not going to boast on myself.  –If you act that way when a girl even winks at me you know darn well I know you wouldn’t expect me to enjoy myself with women since I’m going to be away a long time.  I’m glad you felt that way that nite though.  Darling, things like that –

 

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-has helped prove to me besides your love for me, just how much you do care & I love it & praise the fact that you do.

            Yes Darling you can sell my radio if you want to but if you can get enough money without selling it, then I wouldn’t.  Don’t take $20.00 off of Peg for it cause it’s broke & isn’t worth more than $10.00 the way it is.  –If it were someone you didn’t care about, why just let them give you $20.00 for it.  Why not.

            Now Darling you really have got me worried but please listen to me!  Just for me-.  Your mother’s been in bed with the headache & your dad know that.  He doesn’t come home from work which leaves you alone with all that work, he also knows that.  You’re still recovering from an operation which makes it still worse & he also knows that.  –Now I think that’s terrible Margaret.  –I like your talks & all that but if I must tell you – you’re no business on that farmEVER!  It’s not at all fair poor consideration & to think they want you to stay there rather than come to your husband.  –You were-

 

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-right when you said in a previous letter that a lot of work would be throughed onto you.  –You said your dad sold most of the hogs so I suppose he is having a good time with the money.  –I hope you don’t think I’m running your folks down but I’m so dam mad I could fight.  –All I can do or say Darling is to get the hell away from there & go to the Pinewood til you have enough money to come & live with me & take it easy for a   change.

            Don’t worry Darling, I’m not getting so fat as to become a “Mr. Five by Five”.  I’m not the right build to ever get any larger or fatter than I am.  –Did you ever notice you & I are the same size Darling.  [edited for content]

            Please don’t ever send me anymore Cig’s.  As I told you, when we moved to our new Battalion they gave us a carton & I received your carton & what do you think.  Our Company Commander took us to the supply house today for another carton.  I now have 3 cartons of Luckies.  Isn’t that wonderful Darling?  I never knew they issued Cig’s in the Army but I guess they do in our outfit.

 

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-Today we rolled packs with full field equipment & cleaned our barracks for tomorrow’s inspection.  Have been taken to a lot of shows in the mornings about Censorship of mail when we’re overseas & keeping what troop movements we know a secret.  The pictures show what happens when a soldier writes home from overseas & tells his location & what his outfit consists of.  The enemy intercepts the mail & finds information that leads to destruction of our emplacements.

            When we’re over sea’s the best thing to write about they said, was how much you love her & all that kinda stuff.

            Well Darling I know I’ve written a long & tiresome letter but nevertheless there’s a lot of good advice in it & I hope you read it over as you’ll forget half what you read it over as you’ll forget half what you read before you reach the end of it.

            Remember –all I think of constantly is meeting that train & you know why Darling.

Write today.

 

x xxxx xxx !      Your Faithful Pheety,

                        Cornshock

P.S. Was I lucky today.

I got two letters from my Pheety, one from my Dad, one from Mary Modylene & a card from Vane.