Letters

Dear Dad,

I don’t remember having heard
about your beef project. With an
experienced man like Garland to help,
you should do pretty good. Sorry to
hear that “Old Bess” didn’t do so good. Under
the circumstances I imagine a …

[letter written immediately following VE Day]

Dear Mom,

I have started a letter to you every
day for six days and I haven’t finished
one yet. I’m trying to finish this
before church as our section is having
a …

VMAIL

To: Mrs. M. M. Grayson
Route #1
Tyler, Texas

From: Cpl L. E. Grayson 18098958
Sec. 1, 4th B.A.D., A.P.O. 635
c/o PM, N.Y., N.Y.

Dear Mom,

You write that Dad is working too hard, but from all
I …

VMAIL

To: Mr. M. M. GRAYSON
Route #1
Tyler, Texas

From: Cpl L. E. GRAYSON 18098958
Sec. 1, 4th BAD, APO 635
c/o PM, N.Y., N.Y.

Dear Dad,

I saw a sight for sore eyes yesterday – two American
locomotives! …

Dear Mom,

I was recalled to the necessity of
writing by the letter from you and Dad
yesterday. Little mail, work, and the war
in general make letter-writing seem
unimportant. Of course, when I stopped
to think, I realized that …

VMAIL

To: MRS. M. M. GRAYSON
Route #1
Tyler, Texas

From: Cpl LAWRENCE E. GRAYSON
Section 1, 4th B.A.D.APO635
c/o Postmaster, N.Y.,N.Y.

England
December 31, 1944

Dear Mom,

I have suddenly realized that it has been two weeks since I…

Dear Mom,

Went to town yesterday to a
picture show. Got in about
eleven to find one piece of mail —
that cablegram. It scared me,
but I pulled my jacket off and
got a drink before I opened it.…

Dear Folks,

Got Mom’s letter of the 9th today. It
had been missent to some other place.

Mildred, do you remember what subject
besides analyt I took in summer school?
I can’t remember for sure whether I took
two subjects …

Dear Mom and Dad,

Received your letter of the 26th
today also a letter from Mildred. I
didn’t know until I read your letter
that Mildred had gone to Comanche.

I quoted you about the tomatoes this
afternoon. I boasted …

England
June 7, 1944

Dear Folks,

How is everything going now? Your letters
of the fifteenth are the last that I have
received. Have really been sweating that
mail call every day. During this past
week, I have fallen down …