This is another brief one from Dart, who doesn’t seem to have too much to say. Still, it’s nice he keeps his streak alive.

He has a new pen from his aunt but prefers his old pen. He guesses which train Dot will take to NYC (Pacemaker or the Southwestern Limited).  He hopes her pictures do her justice and he thinks 5′ 6.5″ is just fine for a girl. He asks that she “go easy” on any new shorthand lest he get strange looks for the  nurses who translate for him.

Big news flash: He dreams of the day they can be together and he can say all the things he is thinking about. Hint: They’re all about her.

Dot’s letter starts by saying that she was still feeling low until she saw his familiar handwriting on a letter. That’s all she needs to cure whatever ails her.

She is distressed that he must undergo another operation to correct the butcher job his surgeon made of the first. She theorizes that the mistake was made intentionally because everyone at the hospital likes him so much they wanted to be sure to keep him around awhile.

She goes into great detail in answer to his question about where she was on Saturday. She works at Wright’s department store in Willoughby, where from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. she makes $3.50. That’s not per hour, that’s per day!

She hopes the mail will work smoothly enough when she gets her portrait proofs that he’ll get his copy by Christmas or a little bit after.

She wishes she had heard the Shaw choir singing on the radio. Her classmates tell her that choir is quite good, and she thinks she could use a little more culture.

She’s still not looking forward to attending her school dance, but she’ll try to be happy. With school going along as normal, she doesn’t have any more news. The page ends with Dot mentioning that she thinks Dart is a nice guy. Because it ends rather abruptly and with no signature, I suspect there may have been another page to this letter, but it is lost to the ages, I fear.