March 14, 1945

Last letter – 13 Mar 45

8 C.I.T.R. C.A.O.

14 Mar 45.

Darling Isobel:

I thought I’d write a few lines again tonight just to keep them coming and surely you ought to get a few letters if I write often enough. I’m still mad thinking of all the letters I’ve written & you only getting such a few of them. I’ve worked for the last two nights until midnight on some Summaries of Evidence & got them finished today so took the night off & went over to a show in the YMCA here. It was not bad either & I got some good laughs.

Had a letter today from one of the Dowells in Bour[?]. His name is Percy. He got my address from the Post Master that I wrote to & he invited me down. I had sort of planned on slipping down over some weekend but apparently his wife is going away for a couple of weeks & he was giving me a gentle hint of not to come until after she gets back. They dind’t mention how old they were – he is a second cousin of mine – that is, his father & my mother would be first cousins. I rather think he is older than I am, & quite a bit too, because he remember Bill Oak, Harry’s brother who was over here in the last war. I think I must be about the youngest of them all in my particular generation.

Anyway I must go down some time. He didn’t say whether they had any family or not. I’m really very anxious to see them & see what they are like. There is a Miss Dowell living close by & I’ll bet she’s an old maid like Aunt [?].

I’m over in my room writing now – have a nice cosy fire in the stove & a kettle of water on to make some tea soon. Doesn’t sound too bad. Jonnie went down town to a show tonight. All my love, dear, & I’m thinking of you all the time now & wishing to the Lord I was home. Love to dear little Frankie & Jimmie.

-Frank.