December 30, 1943

Dearest,
Well, well, + well. Guess what I got today! Seven V-letters + one air-mail from you! The former were dated Dec. 2,3,4 5,+8 ( 3 pgs) – the latter Dec. 1. I also got 3 Posts (2 of the same issue) + 4 Princeton Alumni Weeklies. You see, yesterday the – Division APO sent a man up here to see why we hadn’t collected the mail which had been piling up there for the last two weeks. But nobody had told us any of our mail was sent to that APO. So today when you mail clerk brought over the mail as usual (incl. your air-mail letter) the Major sent him after the 2 weeks accumulation + he go the first 4 V-letters. Then he had no more than gotten back than they called up + said they had some more. So he went + got a third batch, with your 3 page job. It just kept us excited all day. But poor Miss B., who hadn’t received a single letter from home since she came to Ireland (her folks don’t believe in V-mail) got just one letter (from home) out of it. I think mine was only the second real letter since I got here- maybe the first. The last one I got was of Nov. 22 + I don’t think that came before we left England. Barner + Lustig?? have been having all the luck. There’s no special news otherwise, so I’ll write you an air-mail now.
Love B