We have two short letters from Dot today.

In one, she encloses the snapshots taken during Dart’s visit. How I wish I had those pictures now! She mentions the one where El tried to pose the kids in a passionate kiss. It seems her mother was looking through all the photos and asked a few subtle questions about that one in particular. Dot tried to sidestep the questions, but Ruth persisted. Finally, Dot explained that she was whispering something to Dart at the exact moment that El snapped the shutter. Said Ruth, “Golly, if that’s the way you whisper to him, I’d like to see you kiss him!” Wrote Dot, “She’s not so dumb.” Say I, “No one ever accused Ruth Chamberlain of being dumb!”

Dot writes that she’s glad he enjoyed his trip because that may persuade him to visit again. Then she wishes him all the best when he returns to Great Lakes. She hopes he’s sent where he wants to go for his training, and she hopes there’s someone there he knows from home so he won’t get so homesick.

In the second letter of the day, Dot encloses a cartoon which has been lost in the intervening years. It had something to do with a man and a beard.

Her mother’s lingering malady has been diagnosed as tonsillitis, requiring the removal of the offending things next week.

In the final paragraph, Dot writes, “Oh Dart, I love you so much that I tried to make iced tea out of cold coffee. And after I had the vile stuff made, I sweetened it with salt.” She’s got it bad.