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336 Saturday 29 Sept. 9 pm (just back from showing the movie ‘Diamond Horseshoe’ at the school theater) Dearly Beloved, Five letters and a cablegram (I loved it!) from you today - and the disturbing news that you haven't heard from me in a whole week. Darling, I think I’d almost go crazy if I didn't hear from you in that long. You are wonderful to take it in stride as you do. I've been missing you a great deal recently, and needing you - have slept restlessly, get sporadically bored with what is most of the time fascinating work, and lose various little perspectives - all because you’re so far away and it's so hard to share things with you by long distance. I know I've been a poor correspondent lately; it's just that the moment I leave work (where I continue [pg 2] to keep quite active) I seem to seek escape in conversation or a movie or anything at all, and find it hard to settle down to reading or writing. I think that mood will pass. Meanwhile there's nothing I want so much as to be near you. I'm going to bed now and will write some more after breakfast - so good to be able to of a Sunday morning. Sunday 8:30 am Darling, That was the first good sleep I've had in a long time. I've been getting enough sleep, really, all along recently, but I mean refreshing and satisfying. And I dreamt about you; I don't remember any of the detail, but it was a reassuring dream. My schedule for today (it's pleasant to be able to plan a program which I have the leisure to finish out) - In a few minutes I shall close this note and get it to the mailman; go up to school and pick up the aerial wire for the radio that [pg 3] Barry and I are installing in our quarters because we have more than we need at school (besides the one we’re borrowing, there is one in the auditorium, with aerial; another in the projection booth, and a third in the library) - then I shall come back here and turn everything upside down in my first real cleaning effort since I've been here. We’re back to two here now; I took Arthur to the plane on Thursday (he left with Marsh Reddish of Denver - the guy who married a Boulder girl at college - and with John Kooser, who unlike the others was going not stateside but to Truk). Yesterday afternoon I took Jim Boyle, who with Peck and Baker is returning to the States and will probably end up with duty at some separation center, to his Liberty ship and got an idea of what accommodations to expect in these crowded times; if I can't do better I shall probably try to return by plane when the time comes, though I still hope to get on a ship that isn't crowded. [pg 4] Arthur promised to telephone you from San Francisco and may possibly have done so by the time this letter arrives though the chances are that he'll be stuck in Pearl just long enough (with his #3 priority) for this to beat him. Arthur was a very pleasant person to live with; everyone liked him and had a certain respect for his quiet and tolerant manner, though his lack of aggressiveness and punch made it a little exasperating to work with him at times: I had to keep after him constantly, for instance, to get a letter in recommending promotion of the Nisei boys. The upshot was that an automatic promotion of all of them to T-5 ([DRAWING]) came though before the letter got out, and now the boy who we feel should be promoted to higher grades - T3 ([DRAWING)] - [M?moto] - and T4 ([DRAWING)] Wong [Nishi?] Tanimoto Kouchi Morimoto - will have to wait awhile. [pg 5] But you will find Arthur a nice, decent guy, and I hope that perchance he may be able to visit as well as merely to telephone you. I got off the track. Next job after cleaning up here is, after lunch, to write the first draft of the monthly report which is due tomorrow noon, and get a letter off to the OWI. That will probably take all afternoon, but will leave me free to write you tonight. I hope I am, ‘cause sweetie, I really need to write you a good long letter and I'm sure it wouldn't hurt you to get one. Till later, darling Warren
