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384 Tues. 27 Nov. 1945 (Saw a movie and went right to bed) Wed. 28 Nov. 7:30 am Hi, Sweetie, The weather's lovely these days. I wish I could bring you out here for awhile. Food has been wonderful lately; steak about twice a week (and I mean steak) eggs and bacon for breakfast and every morning plus wheatcakes and cereal if we want them. 7:30 pm Well - that was a profound beginning! I can't remember what the interruption was. With the time when I am to leave approaching so fast, I grow increasingly impatient of writing details of what I'm doing, even though with my belated promotion to head of the department my interest in the job has been completely revived and the whole world looks brighter. (It is even more important to me than I realized [pg 2] to be doing my own job and not to be somebody else's assistant). I think my impatience is as much an expression of the desire to get moving, now that the time is almost up, as it is the thought of saving things to tell you about, though that enters into it too. Remind me to tell you of Miss Lolita Warner and her activities in support of the girl scouts here. I spent a couple of hours with her this afternoon planning a girl scout hike to the beach this coming Sunday, a program under which she will train girl scout leaders during the coming weeks, etc. She is about 35 (expects to be married in Bogota, Columbia, in a few months), exceedingly active, and has been through the whole war, having escaped from her home in Manila earlier. [pg 3] Carlton Siegler, whose background is in Education and who expects to be here (on a point basis) until about April, wrote Arthur Fickling a week ago today that he expected to leave San Francisco on Sunday (Nov. 25). He may be held up in Pearl two or three days, but might arrive here any day now. If he does not bring orders for me, mine will be written by ComMarianas, who can release me 21 days before Jan. 1, that is, Dec. 10 or 11. Even if he does, that seems likely to be just about when I'll leave and means that I'll miss Christmas but may make New Year's. Now I shall answer your recent letters, and after that shall begin packing the box I'm going to mail, mostly with books. I cleaned out [pg 4] my desk at school today and am in general organized so as to be able to pack in a hurry. Meanwhile I've lots of work to do at school. #463 Thank you for the carnation, darling - smells wonderful. And for the amusing clipping about [Mmmbadiwe?]. I gave your message to the two Arthurs, who were pleased to hear from you. The Arthur Sz's baby was not intentional, he maintains but he's rather proud about it all the same. I can hardly wait to see Wendy! Mr. Twitty of the F.E.A. (or rather the U.S.Commercial Co.) tells me that Mr. Schwartz was favorably impressed even tho I was not willing to stay out here and transfer directly. Well, it won't hurt anything a bit if we are offered the job. Still haven't finished that thing I was making! But I will. [pg 5] Rein ought to be home by now. #464 Glad to know you were planning to see a gynecologist soon and am all eager to hear when he thinks is the best time for you to have another baby. Starting one about a year from February suits me fine. I was a little startled at the news that Doug and Valerie were moving up the date of their wedding again, with the result that when I heard it the event must have already taken place. Wasn't it on the 23rd that I scratched out that portion of my letter where I wrote - “The 20th! Why, that's already passed…” It will be wonderful to be in civilian clothes. And wool gabardine is my #1 favorite, followed by tweeds. #465 The “hi” baby - I love that. Sweetie, I just can't tell you how much it will do to me to be back again with my [pg 6] family. It wasn't only Simone's distaste for Jack's family, Sweetie, although that helped. It was just Simone - only a strong, dominating man could keep that sort of woman faithful to him. It's just one of those things. Yes, when I find out my date of leaving I'll cable and send a special, both. Then I'll write from Saipan, where officers’ waiting time is 2-3 days. After that, a long silence, but at least you'll know I'm on the way. Won't be able to estimate date of arrival until I know what ship I'm leaving on and what speed it makes. I will of course give you all the details I can learn. Time to do some packing now, Sweetie. I love you Warren
