Dear Mom, Dad and all:

     Just borrowed this typewriter from one of the boys to dash off a short letter.  Evelyn went home last Tuesday after spending the last ten days here with me.  Last weekend we visited the home of the great English poet and had a very pleasant time there.  Eve has sent you some pictures of it.  I am going down to her place tomorrow just for the day and to get some rations.  She will probably come up here again in a week or so.  As we have it planned now she will spend about a week out of every month with me.  She got her first package and George finally got his shaving kit.  Eve was delighted with the nightgown and negligee and the other unmentionables you sent.  She says you certainly have good taste and I quite agree.  She got Dick's letter describing the Hamilton family and has written to him.  I got a letter from the Martins on Fifth Street expressing beat wishes and Evelyn is writing to them too.  She will have plenty letter writing to do with all her own relatives and mine as well.  I may or may not have told you that she has an aunt in Brooklyn with a son in the Navy.  We'll have to stop and see them when we are on the way home, whenever that will be.  I will send you our wedding pictures when I get to Eve's tomorrow.  They turned out pretty good and will give you a pretty good idea of what our wedding was like since they were taken at the church and not at a studio.  Just read over the last V-mail I received from you, mailed May 17th.  We saw "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Shakespeare Memorial theater last week.  I was wondering what part Gerry played.  She's a bit tall for a fairy isn't she?  Don't bother about film.  I don't get much chance to take pictures and have enough to last me for a while yet.  I hope we have better luck with the Rosary than we did with the ring, because I think the Jerries must have gotten it as it still hasn't arrived.  Fortunes of war.  I have a very nice room here and still go to see my old landlady frequently for a cup of good coffee.  Eve and I had dinner with her one day last week and went out to a pub with her and her husband a week ago Saturday.  They're a fine old couple and they think the sun rises and sets on Eve and I.  Eve spent most of her leisure time with her and they saw all the movies together in the afternoons when I was working.  There isn't much to do here and Eve would have been lost if it hadn't been for her.  I hope you can read this when it's reproduced as this typewriter isn't so hot and my typing isn't what it could be.  I should have double spaced this for easier reading and because there isn't enough to write about around here to till a full page single spaced.  I hope Art got Gerry the graduation gift Bug and I wanted him to.  You can pay him out of my allottment for my share if you haven't already done so.  Bug told him that in his letter, I think.  Also get Bug a years subscription to Reader's Digest for me and have it sent to him here for his birthday.  A subscription to the Saturday Eve Post would also be a good gift for him.  It's good to see the ads in them as well as the stories.  The page is full so I'll say Cheerio for now.

Love,

Thatch