Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 94]

Letter from Warren Johnston to Bobby [Letter 94]

#46 Mon Nov. 13 half-past noon Darling- Today for the first time since I've been here (not counting the two or three days after we arrived) I feel as tho I'm getting somewhere - the filing job has been delegated to others; this month's pay line (the job which has occupied the past 3 evenings) is finished and I am free to begin learning things. I don't mind long hours as much and would much rather have responsibility (as I do now) than not. You ask me to be honest with you as to time. Well, men are beginning to get home after 20 months - rarely sooner, often later. There is a fair chance that I might be able to make it in 18; almost a certainty within two years. That sounds awfully dismal, doesn't it? Don't let it get you down, sweetie - we'll stick together. Soon I'll have my little responsibilities here enough under control to be able to write you more of what I'm thinking, feeling and doing. My longer letters seem to be good for you, judging from your response, and they are for me too. Haven't resumed reading yet and I wish you’d write just a little more about what you are reading meanwhile. My aim here is to find out as much as possible (while continuing to carry on in routine phases of a job whose features are already pretty well established) about this whole operation from a military govt. standpoint to be ready for the next one that we'll presumably be attached to some months from now. There should be an [?] during which I can phone you a couple of times. I love you darling Warren

1944-11-13

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