November 6, 1943

Hello Beautiful.
I got the jack-pot today, most of it. Meaning that all at once I got your Air-mail of Oct 20 (#15) + 5 V-letters of Oct 27th, 28th, +29th (#20 C+D and either A or E, I can’t quite make it out, probably A- the one about the children). Your V-letters aren’t all numbered, but as near as I can figure, I am now missing Nov 3, 6, 10,12,13, + either 16 or 17 as well as 20 B + E or A. I suppose the missing ones are air mail + the rest of #20 (Oct 29) will be along in a day or two. Some of the guys are still getting air-mails that were sent in the middle of September. Your #3 would have been about Sept 22, + # 6 about Oct 1st. Incidentally, if you didn’t know it, we over here aren’t allowed to number them. None of your letters have been censored – at least V-mails aren’t stamped by a censor as they should be if they were read. How are mine doing- any detections? I take it I’m not sending you enough air-mail letters, I’ll see what I can do. The trouble is that so much of the chatter that I would ordinarily write is strictly forbidden, + after I put the cream ? of the news in V-letters, there doesn’t seem to be much left. Maybe I’d better start writing essays on various phases ? of English life, or something- but I really don’t know much about it. Can you read these V-letters alright? Sometimes I can’t make out the scribble you cram in the corner of yours but I don’t think I miss anything important