Dart was happy to receive two fine letters from Dot today. He was also happy to report that he is writing to her once again from a sitting position, and his back doesn’t hurt like it did yesterday.

He apologizes for dashing her spirits about his “pending” leave. He was foolish enough to believe the words of the medical staff when they predicted how soon he’d be going home. In turn, he inadvertently misled Dot.

Since she messed up the film he’d sent her, he asks her to “introduce” her family to him by describing what they look like. He also repeats his request for a billfold-sized picture of her pretty self.

She has apparently written to him of her plans to visit Michigan over her Easter break, and he spends a paragraph guessing which route she’ll take to get there. He’s sure she’ll have lots of fun, and equally sure he won’t get a letter from her during her visit.

There is a brief musing over which church he’ll attend when he is back in Cleveland. His childhood church was the Methodist one, but when he left home, he began attending the Congregational Church and liked it quite well. He has friends at both, so he’ll just have to see which one “wins.”

He discusses his favorite Sunday afternoon classical radio programs – none of which are played in a Navy hospital. He also describes the bitter, blustery weather raging outside his ward. He reminds her that he is still sporting his curly red whiskers. His aunts are trying to convince him to wear the “gruesome appendage” home. In fact, one aunt sent him a little kit that included wax, oil, pomade and perfume that smells of whiskey after she read of some famous men who groom their facial hair with such things!

There’s nothing much more to say, except that every time he hears some good news, he thinks how happy it will make Dot to hear it. He confesses how wonderful it is that someone like her exists and likes him so much.

Dot’s theme is “No Letter Today,” even though she received one that wasn’t from him. His are the ones she wakes up looking forward to and isn’t satisfied until she returns to her house at the end of the day and finds one waiting for her.

She heard from her Marine pen pal. They seem to have an ongoing argument about the Navy VS the Marines, and Dot believes the Navy always wins.

She finds it difficult to write when there is no new letter to answer. Plus, she’s listening to Bob Hope in the background and cannot concentrate on her writing. She closes with the announcement that Ronald Coleman was wonderful in last night’s production of “Everything for the Boys.” (Radio show?)