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204 Navy #3247 (Mil. Govt) FPO San Francisco Sunday 22 April 1945 8:30 pm Dearly Beloved, I guess you will be getting birthday presents, off and on, right up to Wendy's birthday. Have a number of little things still to be mailed - those that are light enough I'll send airmail; most are out. (When I was mailing the wooden box the other day I thought I’d see just for fun, whether it would be less than $10 airmail…it came to something over $40!) It seems to take me about a week to mail one package. Am really a busy man now! Tel is away for four or five days and has left me a long list of things to try to get done in his absence - supervising the building of the school stage and making sure that a lot of little details are correctly attended to; taking over his chūgakkō English class tomorrow (I look forward to that); seeing that all school buildings get painted, finally, as [Laston?] promised; check and submit to the Supply Officer an estimate of supply needs to cover a 6 month period, as made out by Wong; check a similar order for tools made out by Kouchi; get ahold of some steel posts from the old sugar mill, now completely razed, for raising the movie projection booth above the audience (haven't the faintest idea who stores the steel; just have to track it down); have several now shobenjo (urinal tubes) installed after [pg 2] consulting the two principals, Ikeda and Moon, as to desired location [same device is standard equipment for us too, incidentally]; have new chūgakkō building wired for 3 bulbs; follow up some information we got as to their being plenty of hospital tents available at Island Command, which is moving into Quonsets [I wrote a memo on the subject today]…and I have my own usual duties besides. My cold has turned out to be a tough nut to crack. But last night I went to bed at 8:30, tonight I'm going to bed at nice and I'll keep that up until it's gone. (It is appreciably better tonight) Darling, the one thing I meant to give you for a birthday present was one of those special letters in which I really take time to sit down, relax, think about you a little more intimately than usual and just write what I feel. I haven't been able to recently, and missing your birthday I'll try next to write M and F, Muz and GF before indulging any long letters (I have a copy of the Cottrell letter, a copy of the Star Bulletin article - mailed you one tonight - and one of the photos of me I sent you for a birthday present.) Meanwhile, I'm about 20 letters behind again! - and such good letters; I’d like to answer all of them in person - as to answering questions, I'll have a new angle on that for you soon I love you, darling Warren
