Letter transcription:
Sept. 2
Dear Mother,
This will be short – I just found the mail goes out at 12 and it is about that now. I had to get up at 0600 this AM to meet 483 patients and we just now got sorta squared away.
Your letters of Sept. [sic August] 27 & 30 came today and I have a couple of certificates to the Moynihans for their kids – hope they get there in time but if their mail is as slow as ours I’m afraid. However that letter of Sept. [sic August] 30 didn’t do bad.
[page 2] I may do some letter writing this PM but that is not too certain. It all depends on my feelings. I didn’t get too much sleep last night because I was on watch – didn’t have to get up but slept in a room where the phone rang several times trying or rather waking the O.D.
Since the mail is leaving soon I’ll simply say
Lots of Love
Daddy
P.S. and promise to do better next time and by the way the gold braid did come but no other packages as yet –
What Ink?? This is a borrowed pen. I haven’t been to the room to get mine.
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“I had to get up at 0600 this AM to meet 483 patients and we just now got sorta squared away.” Wow…
In our day and age, with ball-point pens lying around everywhere, it’s a reminder of another era to hear him report: “This is a borrowed pen. I haven’t been to the room to get mine.” 🙂