Letter 50 From Great Malvern, England - V-Mail letter
V-mail Form
No. 728951

TO: Mrs. E.L. Martin 
1082 Wakefield Ave. 
St. Paul. Minnesota U.S.A.

Feb 24, 1943

From: Lt. Edward L. Martin Jr. 
Electronics Trn. Group 
APO 640-US Army
c/o Postmaster, N.Y. City

21 Feb 1943

Dear Mom, Dad and all:

     I recieved your V-mail letter and the package on Feb. 15th.  Thanks much for both.  This has been the only letter received since Jan. 2nd from home.  Evelyn spent the weekend here, staying at the same hotel George did and having her meals with me.  Your rather obvious fears, judging from the package contents were a bit unfounded as Evelyn had told me she would like to become a Catholic and her dad had inquired, unknown to me, of a Catholic man he works with for suggestions of books on the subject so when she came up I gave her most of the books you sent to take back with her.  When I go to see her the first week of March we will call on the parish priest nearest her and arrange for instructions.  So you can forget any worries you may have had on that subject.  Evelyn is a fine girl in every way and when you meet her I know you will all agree and welcome her warmly into the family.  We had a fine week-end the weather being favorable, and spent most of it walking and hill climbing.  Saturday night we saw "In Which We Serve", an excellently done film written, directed, acted and the music written by Noel Coward.  I phoned George Wednesday night and he said he wished he could have come too.  He will be with me at Evelyn's the sixth of March.  Evelyn has written Art and Mom air mail and sent her picture in Mom's letter.  I hope you get it okay.

Bye for now.

Love, Bob.