Dear Mom, Dad, and All,

     Your V-mail letter of March 17 received on the 28th March and very welcome as was first since V-mail of Feb. 23rd.  Glad to hear you received Evelyn's letter & picture and are so well pleased with your future daughter-in-law.  Evelyn thought your idea of a Mass on the day of our wedding a beautiful idea, and in her own words she wrote (quote), "I'm glad that I'm going to become a Catholic, because, as you say, that religion seems to do so much more for you."  The priest is to call at her home and she is anxiously awaiting his visit.  Her father's friend arranged it.  She has not yet received your letter and I hope it didn't go to the bottom with the two thousand sacks of U.S. mail reported lost in the newspapers last week.  We are planning to spend our week's honeymoon at the home of the well known "Pirates" of Gilbert and Sullivan fame.  This will be a new part of the country to me.  George will be best man if it can possibly be arranged.  Needless to say I'm completely happy and not a little excited at the approach of the great day.  I had a fine time last Saturday at the home of the Rt. Honorable Lord Stanley Baldwin of Bewdley.  He's a very fine gentleman and very active for all his 76 years.  He showed us around his gardens, which were just blooming and beautiful to behold.  We talked a little politics and he showed us a note in verse, written by Kipling in his own hand, and given to him as a Christmas gift.  Kipling was staying with them at the time.  Mrs. Baldwin, I should have said Lady B., was a very gracious hostess.  I sat at her left at tea and we got along well.  She said a very dear friend of hers in the states who used to send her tea and chocolate once a month had died recently so she no longer enjoyed this treat.  I said he was very thoughtful to have done so, and she said, "Yes, Mr. Morgan was a very fine man."  She meant "J.P.", of course, so it rather "shook" me.  Lord Baldwin was much pleased with the fact that I knew quite a little of the past history of the vicinity, as I have been reading several historical novels of late, and he added not a little to my store of knowledge on the subject.  All in all it was a grand afternoon.  I called George tonight and he got your letter mailed in the first part of March.  Did you get the cable he sent you about the 9th?  When you write acknowledging receipt of letters from us, tell us the date on which they were mailed so we will know to which one you refer.  We've both wondered if you got certain ones, but can't tell from your letters.  I haven't received my birth certificate as yet.   Hope it didn't go down, too.  Can you read my writing okay on these V-mail letters or is it too small?, or too close together?  Your's are fine since you type them.  Best regards to Art and Mary from Evelyn and myself.  Hope Mary is doing all right.  Evelyn has written to Irene and I think, to Florence.  I have answered all letters received via V-mail.  If you can send Mike Ellingson's brother's address we can arrange a meeting.  Its the only way we can.  How about a letter from Pete and Jerry and Dad.  One V-mail a month isn't much, and all I've had during Feb. and March.  I'm still well and gaining weight.  You'd hardly know me.  I'll send some snaps in the near future.  I bought a photo exposure meter from a fellow officer last week.  Guess this is all for now.  Yours for Victory.

                    
Love, Bob