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John William Graham letters, October-November 1944

1944-10-19 John Graham to Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Graham Page 1

October 19, 1944
Italy

Dear Dad, Mom + Grandmother:

It's raining hard this afternoon so I've some time to write while I'm loafing by the stove. Once in awhile a day like this is nice to write, read and do some things a fellow doesn't get to when the weather is sunny. We just got in a bunch of almonds which we put under the stove and they are well roasted in the shell. They taste mighty good and we have eaten several helmet full already. This is being written by candle light as it may run up and down on the paper but I can't use that for an excuse for I never could write in a straight line anyhow.

One of the boys is busy making a straw mattress, got a bale of straw from someplace and has his mattress cover stuffed so full it looks like a hay stack. I think he has too much in it but perhaps when it packs down it will be okay

Had two letters from you and one from Aunt Jennie in last nights mail. Im glad you got your washing machine and it is satisfactory, guess were lucky to get one. We are kind of figuring on fixing us up one but maybe it wont come to a head. We sometimes get wild ideas that never materialize but it passes time to plan and figure.

Hope by now the stoker repairs have come and the furnace is going for I imagine you need it badly. I'd like to see the maple trees and the rest for they are really pretty this season, there are no trees of any size over here guess they have been run down to make room for grapes and cultivation.

I was vaccinated the other day and for a while I thought it was going to work. Had a fever

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October 19, 1944 Italy Dear Dad, Mom + Grandmother: It's raining hard this afternoon so I've some time to write while I'm loafing by the stove. Once in awhile a day like this is nice to write, read and do some things a fellow doesn't get to when the weather is sunny. We just got in a bunch of almonds which we put under the stove and they are well roasted in the shell. They taste mighty good and we have eaten several helmet full already. This is being written by candle light as it may run up and down on the paper but I can't use that for an excuse for I never could write in a straight line anyhow. One of the boys is busy making a straw mattress, got a bale of straw from someplace and has his mattress cover stuffed so full it looks like a hay stack. I think he has too much in it but perhaps when it packs down it will be okay Had two letters from you and one from Aunt Jennie in last nights mail. Im glad you got your washing machine and it is satisfactory, guess were lucky to get one. We are kind of figuring on fixing us up one but maybe it wont come to a head. We sometimes get wild ideas that never materialize but it passes time to plan and figure. Hope by now the stoker repairs have come and the furnace is going for I imagine you need it badly. I'd like to see the maple trees and the rest for they are really pretty this season, there are no trees of any size over here guess they have been run down to make room for grapes and cultivation. I was vaccinated the other day and for a while I thought it was going to work. Had a fever