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#113 Sunday 21 Jan. 8:40 pm My darling, A late night with the duty (I didn't have to get up in the middle of it, tho - just wrote letters later than usual), a 2-hour English class tonight plus breaking in a new pair of field shoes all conspire to make for an early bedtime, but I want to write my daily letter to you now lest it turn into a very sketchy note tomorrow morning. Thank you for the lovely hanky, darling. It is good to have a bit of delicate femininity to look at, touch or smell now and then; I've tucked it, carefully folded, into my wallet to carry around with me and will take it out from time to time. The scuttlebutt is exceedingly interesting and part of it bears out recent suppositions made here - the part as to ultimate places more so than the current objectives of the men going out. As to the area which might be bypassed, I think I know what it is and that too was the tentative answer to some speculation here. I can understand the feelings of the men who are itching to get out and start working off their overseas time. As for so many men going to such and such a place, we hadn't anticipated that. It seems inconsistent with the general policy up to now of a certain man of action, but maybe he worked a deal with our group. If that doesn't make sense to you, don't fret too much about [pg 2] it. It doesn't look like a matter that intimately concerns me at the moment or for some time to come. Darling, I've realized for quite awhile that this setup (despite no phone calls) is better for you than a change with its interruption of mail and uncertainty, and it's principally for that reason that I'm hoping to stay where I am for as long as possible. Nevertheless, when and if I do get transferred via Hawaii I won't waste a moment in regret - I'll just head for that telephone, make the most of the opportunity, and hope you feel the same way. As we both well know it isn't a bit important what's said - I just want to get that little bit closer to the very dear feel of you. Will be glad to receive the stationery if you can get it, as the PX here frequently runs out of it, but I haven't been stuck without some means of getting it so far, even if it's just scrounged from our office. (Now I have two to scrounge it from). Can you pick up a cheap book of small children's songs for me (try the 5 and 10 first)? Especially old, familiar ones; preferably but not at all necessarily (if they’re sufficiently familiar so that I know the tune) with musical notation. It will be used in teaching English to the younger school [pg 3] children. The idea is that if one of my young Korean teachers. Next to songs the best thing would be simple rimes, like Mother Goose. Pick out something suitable for Wendy later on, so that by and by we can tell her about the little Korean and Japanese children learning English by reciting or singing the same verses. Darling, I love you so much and wish so hard that you were here to share these experiences with me. [Dekimasen?] I've grown, unawares, quite fluent in Japanese speech though my vocabulary is still quite limited - can improve that readily by taking a little time for review (which I still haven't done, tho I have the materials now and will be able to as soon as the school job settles down a little). Reading, however, and especially writing seem like lost arts. I suppose I could relearn them too if it were worth the time. To bed now. Recently I've been too busy even to dream (or remember the fact); tonight I must concentrate on it. Always and only yours Warren
