To: Lt. William D. Meehan From: H.C. Meehan

July 28, 1945

Dear Billy,

I received your letter of July 8^th yesterday. Yip! Yip! Yip! I sure am glad you received the three packages. As you probably gathered from my previous letters, I’ve been doing a bit of stewing because you hadn’t received them and, as you know, when I get to stewing, I really stew. That just leaves the package of March 14^th unaccounted for, which isn’t too bad. I don’t mind if one package goes astray.

I have bought you another box of maple sugar candy and shall send it to you next week. It’s too long to fit in an overseas box, so I’m going to send it by itself. I’ll let you know as soon as I’ve actually mailed it so you can be on the lookout for it.

Thank you for the snapshots, Billy. They are very nice. I shall have to show Mary the picture of you in the sweater she made for you. By the way, did you receive the letter from Mary in which she thanked you for the perfume you sent her? Whenever I receive a letter from you, she always asks me if you mentioned having received the letter from her. Let me know if you have received it because if you haven’t, Mary wants to send you another one.

I haven’t received the booklet of instructions from the Argus camera people as yet, so I haven’t sent the camera. If I don’t receive it on Monday, I’ll send the camera anyway and then send the booklet under separate cover.

A very tragic thing happened this morning. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 86^th floor of the Empire State Building. They don’t have very many details as yet, but several persons have been killed and they have turned the main floor lobby of the building into a hospital. All available fire engines throughout the city have been called to the scene. It seems that eleven floors of the building are engulfed in flames and several persons are trapped. Two of the elevators crashed from the 50^th floor and they said part of the motor of the plane was found in one of the elevators, so apparently there was a direct hit on the elevators. I shall send you the clippings from the paper so you can read all about it. I have the radio on here in the office and they are telling about it. It must be terrible.

Well, it’s raining again today. It just doesn’t seem as though we’re ever going to have any nice weather.

Jack Travers didn’t go back to China after all. He is some place in Kentucky. It seems that his job is to examine suppliers going to the CBI theatre to see that they are of a suitable type.

Bye for now, honey lamb. Let me know if you want anything.