Tuesday July 4, 1944

Dear dear little honey: I’m writing this out on the porch while I watch our darling baby have her sun bath. She is lying on her tummy now, with little turtle head raised up, looking all around, and little feet up too. Of course she is entirely nude, and she looks too precious. Her bottom is adorable. She loves the sun and grows healthier and more beautiful every day. We had fun yesterday, while waiting for the mail to get sorted, went to Howard Johnson’s, bought a small box of fried clams and drove out to the beach and ate them!! It was fun. I am having a very good time here, and am as nearly happy as I will ever be and if my dearest comes home to me. Tonight, Mary and her mother are coming over-Mary has ‘til Thursday off. She and I plan to go fishing, if we can borrow a boat. She says maybe Davey will be here next month!!! I want to know him my lovely little baby, who looks so like her? Daddy, and make him jealous darling, I love you so much- please take care of yourself. You are so far away from me! Where do you have the doedsie doe? NOT on dinka?! My allotment check came yesterday it will go to the bank in today’s mail. Hushie provides so well for “his girls.” Those money orders and the other money [was] sent today all my love, your wife.