Here’s another chipper letter from Dot. She just received the letter containing snapshots of Dart taken by the ship’s doctor. She loves them! He looks so tan and healthy. She says that in one of the poses he looks just like his father. “Good looking man – your Pop.”

She reluctantly appreciates the warning that these frequent letters from him will soon stop. Being forewarned will not make it any easier for her to see the mailman come and go with no mail for her. She shudders to think what it would be like to be writing to a man who didn’t like to write back, or wasn’t very good at the art. She’s very spoiled, but so very happy that her fate was to fall for a guy who loves to write and does a good job with it.

Dot asks if he is able to keep the letters that the censor rejects so that after the war, his family can read about what he was doing when he couldn’t write. Maybe he could keep a journal or something, because she’s so eager to hear all about his life at sea.

Did he receive the package she sent him just before Easter? If it arrives later, he should just throw it out. It was a box of cookies, specially wrapped for sending overseas. She’d also included a checker board and some other games. She’s sure the cookies would be inedible by now.

This week Harriet and George took in a 16-year old girl as a foster child. Dot is going to invite her to a movie this weekend as a way of getting to know her “foster niece” better.

“I’ve been looking for some pin-up pictures to send you, but you boys from the Haggard must have gotten all of them. Or aren’t I going to the right source? My opinion of you will drop a whole millionth of a fraction if you could tell me where the best source is.”

She finishes by saying that she’s fallen asleep twice while writing this letter.