Dec 12-44

Dear Mom,

The shorts, camomile, and orange peel candy came yesterday. I am wearing a pair of the shorts now and they fit fine! You don’t know how thankful I am that I now have more so that I won’t have to wash every three of four days, and I can wear each pair no more then two days now. Please thank Grammy for the orange peel. I haven’t started to eat that which she sent for Christmas because I wanted to save the best of all my candy, etc. till last. But I just couldn’t resist temptation when this came, so I’ve had a few pieces and it certainly is up to her standards of good quality, in fact the very best.

Well Bob Sckerka, my buddy from Forrest Hills, and I have been to Liverpool and now we have reserved tickets for the next two concerts of the Liverpool Philharmonic. We think we might go to Nzularly Sundays together as long as they have the concerts. But when we went we took a chance on having Handel, “Messiah”, but all the seats were booked in advance and I didn’t even know it would be there till the middle of the week. Too late to book tickets so, standing around in the cold and snow to miss it was quite a disappointment, I assure you!! So we saw “Double Indemnity”, “Christmas Holiday” with Deanna Durbin, and came back to camp in all this dismal disgusting English rainy sloppy weather! Deanna certainly was a different actress in this picture. She’s supposed to be the first of her nature, grown up a day in movies, I enjoyed it much more then the other picture.

So Paul’s in San Diego now and be plans to be training there for a couple more months. Boy, he doesn’t know just how lucky he is. I’ll try to write him soon. Stay well- give my regards to all.

Your Loving son,

Chuck