20 Sept 1944

Darling Diane,

This can only be a note because I am absolutely stumped for things to write about dear. There being nothing of importance and I have received no mail except a short note telling me of your planned movements. I do expect some mail on any plane from now on and am anxiously awaiting it for I feel that you may have some news that I will be awaiting eagerly. I am particularly anxious to hear what Ken had to say when you talked with him in FT W-- as you planned to do. That is if he was home when you were there. I have not heard from him as yet but really expect to any day now. The time lag in letters when there is stuff and things in the wind is very exasperating but due to the mails cannot be helped.

I suppose that you are back in good old SA by now and making big clean up, scrub up in the apartment after your extended absence. Don’t you wish that you had me there to give a little elbow grease to the job? Now don’t tell me what to do for I know the parts I am supposed to take care of even if I don’t like it. It won’t take long tho and that is one of the things I like about the apartment. A good concentrated effort soon does the job and things look “hunky dory” once again.

I seem to be slowly getting over my indisposition tho I am not what you might call as perky as I would like. The headaches seem to arrive each day tho it is toward evening now and they are not so severe. The one big thing of course in my mind is that nothing along those lines which would keep me from keeping my date with you in Florida should come up at this late date. I guess that it is some sort of mild fever. FUO they call it here. Fever unknown origin. There are a lot of them. There is nothing that a few moments with you my darling cannot cure I can assure you. Just two more weeks now and doesn’t that sound wonderful? I know that after you are arrived at home that I will have a letter from you about the whole deal and what you expect to do. Maybe we can get over to Ft. W and I can see Ken if nothing happens between then and now. I would sort of like to see it turn out where I get my leave and the orders come thru then and I would not have to return here. Is that too much to ask?

I had asked Major Wood who lives in Dallas and is now up there on leave to send you a birthday telegram. I gave him the money before he left. We had a letter yesterday from him and the Western Union would not take an anniversary greeting for transmission. I certainly have an awful hard time with matters of that sort don’t I dear? Please give me credit tho sweet lady for remembering for I did want you to get the telegram. Did you receive the lotion and package by express? I expect that it that it was laying around the express office for sometime as you left about the time that I sent it by a returning officer to transmit. I put the return address on it of the apartment there in SA as I did not want it to get all tied up due to the fact that it was a gun and taboo in the mails. I guess that before this gets to you that I will have word of it from you.

Darling mine my love for you continues to grow but I must say that my impatience to see you is growing at a faster rate. I am about to bust a blood vessel thinking of it. But darling the comfort of having you and loving you is such a wonderful thing to me. I have told you before that it is sustaining part of my life but saying it again makes it none the less true. I love you sweet lady and send the oodles of it. Adios for now.

Edwin