Dear Dad:
I just received your letter a few minutes ago and I want to answer it immediately although I haven’t much time during the noon hour. Why am I so interested in the law books? I haven’t contacted a judge advocate because that isn’t too easy for me to do, but if I recall rightly, those books were used by the law students that I roomed with in Lincoln. Buy (them) as soon as you can and ship them immediately—take the money from my account. I do want them in a hurry and can’t wait for them to arrive. I couldn’t sit here this afternoon and wait to write the letter tonight. Maybe I can add a little to this before time for work. Your letter, although it might lack plenty grammatically, it’s a crackerjack otherwise. It’s a very good one and the kind it’s good to get. Our new home makes me itch for a furlough more than ever but perhaps something will happen that such a thing may be possible, who can tell?
We follow the news carefully day to day and have a large map in the office and the billet to keep up with events all the time. A few days ago we received a permit to buy a radio and you don’t know what it is not to have one until you are without one. Of course there are many radios in the battery but it’s practically impossible to buy one as I suppose it is in the states. Tomorrow is Sunday and that should mean a swim in the surf and day at the beach. I work in an office that doesn’t call for much outdoor exercise and I look forward to the Sundays.
I know this is a short letter and not a good one but I wanted to let you know to go ahead and purchase the books because I don’t think there is any doubt of their worth. Let me know when you send them. Maybe I’ll write you again tonight and get off a better letter.
Love,
