We open with a very short letter from Dart, which apparently contained a small token, left over from his first GI haircut. In his own words, “I’m better dressed now, but I look and feel naked.   … There isn’t enough hair left on my head for anyone to grab with a pair of tweezers.”

He has been recruited by the Chief to do the special assignment of stenciling everyone’s belongings – a task that will take a week and will be done on his “own” time.  He warns her his letters will be shorter for awhile.

His P. S. Reveals that sailors are not allowed to put S. W. A. K. on the outside of an envelope, so he put it on the inside.

Do kids these days know what S.W. A. K. means? Do they know what an envelope is?

In Dot’s letter of the day. she’s a little more open with the compliments than usual, but apparently doesn’t want to wade in too deep. After lavishing high praise on Dart by telling him about the raves he got from all the girls at Andrews, she quips “So, you see, you make a pretty good 1st impression, anyway. (Ouch!)”

Dot chastises Dart mildly for all his references to his “messy” letters, reminding him “What I look for in a letter isn’t the handwriting, I assure you!”

She tells an amusing story about an episode at dinner and reminds him to send another picture of himself (“Just a hint – there’s no limit as to what size picture we can have on our dresser.”) My favorite part is when she is commenting on his use of Case stationary. “I hate to be reminded of a school that didn’t have the sense to keep a good man once they had him.”

She signs off with an atypical “Loads of Love, Dot.”

There’s another letter from Dot written later that day, but since she did not write on the 10th of November, I’ll save it for tomorrow.