November 5, 1943

Hi,
I’m still falling down on the correspondence, I guess. Maybe the fact that I haven’t heard from you for nearly a week has something to do with it (Excuse #2). Also I’ve been helping censor the enlisted men’s mail lately + when I get through with that I’m sort of sick of the sight of the stuff. They’re sending V-mail Xmas cards now- ten to a man- so with all that + letters too, I had to sign 150 V-mails this evening, which tends to give cramps in the fingers. Someday I’ll have to rite you a letter in typical Alabama GI style. Some of them are worth publishing. (I hope the guy that censors this doesn’t come from Alabama). Life around here has been quite uneventful lately. I told you, I believe, that I was in London Monday. Tuesday I was in Surrey + saw some pretty country. They talk about Surrey pines + they are really there. They are rather picturesque pines that look rather like the Norway or Red pines in Maine, but without such long needles. I can’t tell you why I was there. Sorry. Last night we had a wild + woolly movie called “Counter Espionage”, mostly in London in blackouts + blitzes.