May 2, 1943

May 2, 1943

Dear Shirley June,

    Please Chum, no funny business in your letters.  Now I'm all mixed up (again).  

      I'll go direct from Lansing to here on the 18th.  I'll be back to Chicago on the 22.  How about the rest of the time with you?  Sun. the 23rd, Field Museum and Roast Duck - definitely.  

Mon. local theater and practice my quaint two step.  

Tues. Aragon or Trianon.  I'd really like to go.  

Wed.  Dinner downtown and a stage play.

Thurs.  Last day.  Unpremeditated.

If everything goes as I hope it will the boss can send me to Africa and have me shot.  I'll be happy.  

     No comment about your Spanish except Pietro means "little Pete", Pedro means Peter or vice versa.

      This last week has been a hellish one for everyone up here.  The whole workshas been changed again.  All is thunder!  I'll be in Thurs. at 7:30 pm on the Hiawatha and will have to come back Fri. at 10:15 pm.  I need some pepping up and you're my favorite pepper upper.  How bout it, Toots? 

     Say hello to your two girl chums and tell them if they want to, they can write to me too.

    I'm positive I'll be released from duty here in about a month.  I'm going Hitler hunting. 

     There ain't much more cooking so we'll stop dishing it out.

           Love

           Ray