Dear Mom, Dad and all:

     I'm writing you another V-mail this morning, but I don't know what I am going to put in it.  Eddie asked me to ask you if you would mind getting us some dishes and anything else that you think we would want as we have been looking through some of the Minnesota papers and we saw some lovely things in them and pretty cheap, too.  So he said if you wouldn't mind getting us a few things it would be awfully nice of you.  The things like those will be terribly dear after the war if we will be able to get them.  I'm glad in a way that I'm not starting a home in England as everything is so dear and it is all utility.  If we wanted any furniture we would have to fill in some papers before we could get any, and then it is only newly-weds and people who have been bombed out who can get it.  It isn't for people like my Mum and Dad who have had a home all of their life.
     I am getting really excited at the thought of setting up house-keeping and it won't be long now, because it won't be long before this war is finished with, at the rate we are going about it.  Who would have thought at this time last year that either Eddie or I would be married.  I wouldn't have thought that I would have been, as I always used to say that I was never going to get married.  I was round to my friend's house last week (she was engaged at Christmas) and she was saying how funny things work out, because last September I was at her sister's wedding and I hadn't even met Eddie then, it was just a couple of weeks after.  The time does fly by.  Joan has been married nine months, by the way has Mrs. Huff told you that she is going to be a Grandmother in November?  I know Joan wrote to her a couple of months ago and told her.
     How is the new baby getting on?  I'll bet Cathy loves him.  Do the babies in America seem to grow quickly?  They do over here, I reckon it must be the war.  One minute they are babies in arms and the next they are about three years old.
     My brothers seem to have grown a lot especially the youngest one, Ray.  It didn't seem ten years ago that he was born and we all trooped upstairs and held him for five minutes.  Les starts work in August as he was fourteen on June 5th.  I don't know what work he is going to do.  I don't think he does either.  There is only really munitions to be done now, so I expect he will be going into that.
     I have started knitting myself a jumper (sweater to you).  It is pale blue.  I don't know when it will be finished as I start knitting and nearly get it finished and then put it away for a couple of months and bring it out and finish it, that's if I like it.  I am going to the pictures this afternoon with Mrs. Baldwin.  We are going to see "The Proud Valley" with Paul Robeson, and "Fires were Started" a film about the National Fire Service.  I have seen them both before but I thought I would like to see them again.  I went last week to see "Thunderbirds" which was pretty good.
     I sent a V-Mail to Mrs. Hamilton yesterday so I have still to write to Mrs. Amundson.  I see I am at the bottom of the page.

Love to you all.

Evelyn