Hello my Darling,

I received your cute letter on Wednesday. I’m very sorry my letters don’t get through but as I remember I wrote almost every day. I can’t say that for this week. I haven’t done much writing this last week but I promise I’ll do better here after. By now you have received my Sunday letter. Pease darling, I hope you see fit to forgive me. I didn’t do anything that wasn’t right, except not getting in, but that’s what happens when you depend on someone else to get you home.

I also got a letter from Will today. I received a letter from you written the last of November. He won’t answer it he says he hasn’t your address. He is still on land as he is seeing his sister. He hears from Florence regularly and would like us to spend one evening with his folks and Florence while you’re home. I guess he wants to know how we feel about her.

I can’t say I would enjoy your type of training. It is a bit hard I bet. That isn’t my idea of fun. We still have some cold days and had a little more snow yesterday. I hope it will be a little warmer by the time you get home. I’m just dreaming how you will look. I think about you all the time. I can’t imagine why except that I love you so much that it almost kills me to be away from you. I am really ashamed of myself for ever doing what I did. I haven’t any excuse but I must get it off my mind until I hear what you have to say about it.

Darling, I still love you and by all means still intend to be your wife if you want me. I love you with all my heart and I want to help to make you your whole life a bit happy. I promise I’ll do my best to make the type of life you want. I know I can’t find anyone else I could ever love like I love you. I want to make you happy and I sincerely hope I am given the chance. There can never be another Joe Joe. And I hope you won’t ever find anyone to find my place while I am still around. I want you as much as you want me. I know I will never get tired of saying sweet things to you. I always love to hear you say you love me. I guess our love is just that way.

Mom and I have had a bad weekend. Me all tired out and she had baby Jerry. He is really sick and Dar just can’t take care of him. He has an awful cold and mom stayed up and took care of him. We got my room papered yesterday but I still have to paint he woodwork. Please try to make something out of this. The baby is playing with the pen as I write. He’s been playing and writing all over the paper. He just insists he sits on my lap while I write to you.

I have a lot of work to do and so I’ll have to close for this time. I write more tomorrow. I only hope your mail gets through to you. God bless you darling and keep loving me always.

Love
DeLores

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P.s. These kisses I send you are just a sample of what I’ll give you when you get home. Please God let Joe get home shortly after boot camp. I miss him so much and I need him so much. I just have to sit down and talk to him very soon, so dear God let him come home.

Darling, I hope you don’t think I’m silly but that’s just how I feel about it. Don’t feel too badly as you must put forth your best so you can get that leave that we so much depend on. Our beginning of life together. I just must stop or I’ll go on all evening. Bye bye my darling. I love you very much, sweets.

Hello My Darling,

Please forgive me not writing much this past week. Haven’t a good excuse but I know my Joe will understand. I love you very much. I should write to help my darling do his best, but when you get home we can get that all fixed up.

I received your letter Tuesday and it was well together. I also got that box of old letters but failed to find one I sent you. It was of a V letter from Millie, Bernice and myself. Didn’t you ever receive it or what? I am going over to Iris’ so so I can learn to Farragut’s song. I look okay as far I can figure out.

Darling, if you need any money for anything to get home or anything just let me know. If I haven’t it, Mom will. I am paying board when I can. Gave mom $10 this week and put $18 away. Next week I’ll pay on the bedroom set and then that’s all for another month. I’ll also try to give the jeweler some. I’m trying so hard so will have money when you get here but I don’t know.

Darling, I have something to tell you and please try very hard to understand. I went to a party in Minneapolis with the kids from work Friday night. It wasn’t perhaps what I should have done but you have to do something once and a while. Most of the kids got stinko but you know I didn’t touch a drop. Neither did Millie. It was a house party and lasted very late. I had fun at the time but don’t feel the same way about it today. I was depending on someone else to get me home and they almost didn’t. I got home just in time to go to work Saturday morning. I went and stayed all day. I couldn’t miss that $8 we need so much. I got home and went right to bed. That explains why I didn’t write last night.

Please try to understand. I didn’t do anything out of the way I must tell you. I danced all evening and there was a fellow. Who was very good at the stomp and he taught me several new steps. Please sweetheart, I promise I didn’t mean anything by it. I went because the kids wanted me to. Next time they will just have have to work.

I know you didn’t want me to go out that way but please don’t get angry and try to call off everything. That would just about kill me. I trust my Joe will understand and not get sour at me. I love you too much to want anything to happen to our beautiful plans. I just had to tell you and try and make you understand. I would not want anyone else to tell you but me. Please try and understand your (I hope it will remain) future wife.

I have to stop for a while as Mom and Dad are going to paper my room so I can have our bedrooms at home when you get home. We will use it too. I hope. Or will we? Let’s say 1 the first night in a hotel just for fun. I never have stayed in a hotel with you and that will be something for us always to remember.

I suppose I will have to have dark as my attendance but I just can’t figure out who the best man will be. Of course that is your decision.

Are you still willing to become a Lutheran for me? I would like it and hope you haven’t changed your mind about it. Sweets, can we get a license to get married? I must stop for a while and will write more later. God bless you and help you to understand. I’ll be worried until you answer me on the letter. So answer it as soon as possible.

Just remember I never did, or will do anything to make you to mistrust me. I’m yours and yours to have if you want. I was and will always be a good girl. That much I will always be for you. Please try to understand and make me happy by forgiving me for one night of foolishness. I want to be your wife, please don’t change that because of this.

Love,
DeLores