Love Letters
""I missed you all very much this year. I certainly hope it is the last one I spend away from home"
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Dearest Mother;
This is a card I found that I had gotten for you. As I don't have time to write
a long letter, I will use this. I hope you all will write me a few letters
soon. I sort of feel like I'm losing touch with folks at home when none are
written. Helen and the baby are fine. Karen is really a kick and seems to be
coming along pretty fast. She certainly had grown since I saw her last. I hope
you and Daddy are OK and not working too hard. We have had a lot of fun lately
playing rummy with Uncle Mac. He has surely been wonderful to us.
We will be out again shortly and I think this will be a rather long trip. I am
glad to hear that Boots will be at C.H. That looks like a swell hospital. I know
he enjoys the work from what he writes. I surely hope this mess is over before
he gets out. Be sure and tell Keitchie to stay out of various reserves etc if
he can. They are not all they are cracked up to be. He will be better off in
a civilian capacity. Swell jobs are open to civilians now. I read of them in
the Engineering Magazine and it makes me sick sometimes to think of what I could
be doing. Tell him to consider the Mechanical branch. I think it is the best
because you can change to any of the others that you might want to easier than
from the other branches of the subject. Well I surely did miss you all these
holidays. When Pack, and Luseale's box arrived with the book "A Christmas
Carol" in it, it made me think of the many times it was read to us in the
living room around Christmas. It is a good story and its associations as far
as my memories go are something I will always remember. I missed you all very
much this year. I certainly hope it is the last one I spend away from home. Thanks
for the plaid shirt. I have worn it several times and it's very nice. I guess
I'd better close now. Good bye for now. Give my love to everyone, Barney.
A card from Barney to his mother
No wonder I wish you such joy and such cheer, You're so sweet and thoughtful, your ways are so dear! You're faithful and tender, you're fine and you're true, And that's why I love you, the way that I do! Barney.
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card from Barney to his mother |
A card from Barney to his mother
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Shirley Cheves
During the time my father was in France he wrote many letters to my mother and me. We were not supposed to know where he was and all letters were censored. Somehow my letters slipped past the censor with, "From daddy in France" at the top and also a few French phrases such as "Ma chere petite fille" etc. He used to tell me to clean my teeth, help my mother all I could and give Clive, my brother, a big kiss from him.
In later years I prised a little information from him. He was in the Military Police and was at his post at some cross roads, directing traffic, when someone said he had better get moving and head for the beach (at Dunkirk).
My mother received a scrappy note saying he had "arrived safely in England" which someone had put in an envelope and posted, everyone tried to help each other as much as they could in those days.
FROM DADDY
IN FRANCE
MA CHER PETIT FILLE SHIRLEY
WELL DEAR I MUST TELL YOU THAT I HAVE EVIDENTLY BEEN SPELLING PETIT WRONG BUT
I THINK I HAVE GOT IT RIGHT THIS TIME AND I HOPE YOU CAN READ IT FOR I TOLD
YOU IN MY OTHER LETTER WHAT IT MEANT IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN I WILL TELL
YOU ONCE MORE IT IS "MY DEAR LITTLE DAUGHTER SHIRLEY" SO NOW YOU
WON'T FORGET WILL YOU DEAR I HOPE YOU ARE GOING TO ECOLE REGULARLY NOW DEAR
AND THAT YOUR COLD IS BETTER BY THE WAY DEAR CAN YOU TELL THE TIME YET YOU
NEVER TELL ME IF YOU CAN WELL DARLING THIS IS ALL DADDY HAS GOT TO TELL YOU
THIS TIME AND KISS PETIT GARCON FOR ME DEAR SO BON SOIR
FROM YOUR LOVING
DADDY
PETIT SHIRLEY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
PETIT GARCON CLIVEXXXXXXXXXX
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