Dart’s heart is on full display in this letter. His feelings of love and devotion flow freely and nearly uninterrupted for six pages.

Those brief interruptions included a comment about all the RCA Victor radios on his ward, the arrival of a nice new patient with the same diagnosis as Dart, the attempt to rejoin the V-12 unit at some location other than Case (and the rejection that came as a result of his hospitalization), the color of his father’s hair, and Burke’s friend Edith.

He’s so glad Dot met his family and that the meeting went as well as he thought it would. He, too likes to dream about being stationed at the Naval base close to Greenwich. On the subject of lovely dreams, he also dares to dream that Dot can travel to Chicago – perhaps with his folks – before she must leave for home. He vows to keep writing to her “whenever the exigencies of duty permit it, be it daily, weekly, or twice an hour.”

He admitted to mooning over her picture all the time and confided that, while it would not do for a sailor to be seen kissing a photograph good night, there are plenty who can be seen in silent communication with those photos just before lights out.

After some more “mushy stuff,” he closes with “This is getting involved, and before I drop too far over the precipice, I better stop, but quick.”

See the silly postcard from a very busy Dot.