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#109 Wed. 17 Jan 6:15 pm Darling - I was awfully pleased to get the little photograph of Wendy today. You say it isn't a good one but it makes her look more real than any I've seen. And whereas up to now in her snapshots she's seemed a baby, in this picture she really looks like a person. She looks intelligent and alive. (Her hair begins to amount to something, doesn't it?) Pop into the big leather folder it goes. Have your letters thru 123 excepting 121. I'll take the last first and work backwards for a change. - I'm not sure I remember Lt. Cmdr. Olsen, but I do Cmdr. Thompson and rather liked the guy. Pictures…I did have a snapshot taken (in a group) awhile back - will try to get a copy of it, but film and printing facilities are so limited here that you can't blame people for not wanting to share it. I'll never go anyplace again without a camera - especially a place like this. There are so many things I’d like to show you that I'll be able to tell you about only inadequately. Still, I have a map of the camp and when I get home we can take walks around it together while I describe little things here and there. (#122) good long letter: your new sunsuit, afternoon on the beach…doesn't seem possible that Wendy could be wearing blue sharkskin overalls! Darling, the only special yen I have (speaking of things for my box) is you. Our food has improved a great deal since [pg 2] I got here and altho it's still pleasant to have special food once in a while, I don’t miss it as I did formerly. That doesn't mean I won't be glad to get the butterscotch whozits. (119-120) So glad you had a visit from Doug; that was long enough to make a difference. I have heard enough about life in the So. Pacific to understand why he doesn't want to go back there and is a little bitter. Have talked to aviators and others who've had duty in about that latitude and practically everywhere in the Pacific; they say that this is about the pleasanteset place they've been in as to climate and surroundings. Although life is somewhat primitive, I'm sure you wouldn't find living out here too uncomfortable and I’d certainly pull any strings to get you here if I knew I were slated to stay awhile. But that's talking nonsense - I just want to come back to you and the sooner the better. How come Doug went to Memphis via New York? Just sightseeing? (118) Have enjoyed getting your many clippings - read the short ones, or in general all the ones in letters, at once and go through the others periodically. I'll give you an accounting from time to time of what I like. Will be glad to get Emily Hahn's book. Yes, darling, I do feel more stable, decidedly - the more so as I find work to do that fits in with my abilities and that needs doing. It is a pity that my letters to you suffer on account of it (I had to take off an hour and a half since beginning this letter to help get tentmate Riley Ewing [pg 3] started with an English class - the one Zas had been teaching before he left recently) but they’re too important a part of my life to be neglected indefinitely - my new job will probably postpone my intention to take an afternoon off a week in accordance with adequate staff, but I do intend to get around to doing so before long. It will be awfully good sometime to have a whole afternoon to spend writing to you - or maybe I'll get away to the beach (it's some distance from here and just now available), relax and write you when I get back. Your letters do mean a great deal to me, and as for your increasing stability, every little triumph for you I feel as tho it were my own. It's 8:30 and I think I'll go to bed. I've been a little overtired for several days in a row. Thurs. am Gee, honey, I forgot I had censorship watch this morning and wouldn't have time to finish this - mail man's practically here now. Love you, sweetie Warren
