Dart’s one-page letters begins with the hope that Dot’s mother will forgive him if he delays answering her letter a little longer. He’d like to wait until he has heard from Dot regarding the announcement of their engagement during his next leave in the States. I suspect that he spends most of his days awaiting word from Dot about that all-important event.

Although the ship was on a holiday schedule today, that didn’t include the mess crew. They still had to prepare and serve meals and clean up afterwards. They didn’t finish until late evening.

He got a “tremendous kick” out of the letter Dot wrote on April 22, although there’s really nothing to answer in it. There’s just one thing she asked for his approval about, and he is happy to grant it.  She has his blessing to sign up as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, if her father agrees to it. (It’s a little sad that with all the progress women have made in 70 years, it would still be laughable to think of a woman signing on with a Major League Baseball team.) He agrees with her that there aren’t enough hours in the week and suggests that they could be rationed like other shortages.

He’s out of time for tonight because he has spent too much time dreaming about the two of them and reading her April letters.