January 19, 1944

1900 19 January 1944


Dearest,
It seems like spring around here. The weather has been quite warm for a week or more, with a little more rain than we had the preceding month. There has been none of that penetrating cold that is so common in England when the thermometer is getting down toward freezing, and very often it has been warm enough to go around without a field jacket (but with a wool undershirt). Also the days are getting appreciably longer. It was broad daylight at 6 PM today, whereas a month ago blaockout time was about 5:30. But it’s still dark after breakfast. This afternoon was bright and clear and tonight it’s a bit snappy. Yesterday I got two V-letter from you, Dec 30 + Jan 2, and today your long letter of Jan 3 and alos your mothers’. Lately, we’ve started getting some V-mail in white envelopes (like yours I think) + no postmark, instead of the usual brown envelopes postmarked in England. I don’t know what that means. I had forgotten I asked you for a thermometer. Now that I’m in a hospital I guess I could steal one without any difficulty- they are expendable. I now have a 10X12 X-ray film box which makes a perfect lap-desk, and also provides an ideal place to keep V-mail blanks which are somewhat too big for any kind of a writing-kit (ours don’t fold, you know). This afternoon I did our 4 appendix, which was a tough one. So now we’ve ? had one to do. It sort of peeped me up a bit.
Love B