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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, January-March 1943

1943-02-10 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 2

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our gain. Dr Hess is the only other neurology man and he isn't able to see all our many patients. 
Lucy let me off in Marion while she went on with a patient with a new leg cast. I had to wait a while for her to come back so I read stuff in Dr. Steele's office. I found this written by Alexander Woolcott in connection with how wars separated newly married people or young homes: "Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." This was said in connection with a remark made by a soldier's wife that they had to separate right after marriage so they had had to build their lives on paper. Therefore, her dresser drawers were overflowing with letters, the material of their married life. We were more fortunate than that, yet our plans of a family and home have to be indefinitely postponed so that it fits sort of well for us too, don't you think?
In a booklet today I learned that Lloyd was a Celtic name meaning indecisive or gray and Llewellyn was a Welsh name meaning Lightning. Laura means a laurel or famous (Latin) and Frances is a Teutonic word meaning free. 
There were a couple of photos in Dr. Steele's office I wish you can see sometime. A former patient made them with black ink and pen on white paper and then a photograph of the sketching was taken. It makes a lovely black & white photo. One is on a real old wheel mostly

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2 our gain. Dr Hess is the only other neurology man and he isn't able to see all our many patients. Lucy let me off in Marion while she went on with a patient with a new leg cast. I had to wait a while for her to come back so I read stuff in Dr. Steele's office. I found this written by Alexander Woolcott in connection with how wars separated newly married people or young homes: "Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." This was said in connection with a remark made by a soldier's wife that they had to separate right after marriage so they had had to build their lives on paper. Therefore, her dresser drawers were overflowing with letters, the material of their married life. We were more fortunate than that, yet our plans of a family and home have to be indefinitely postponed so that it fits sort of well for us too, don't you think? In a booklet today I learned that Lloyd was a Celtic name meaning indecisive or gray and Llewellyn was a Welsh name meaning Lightning. Laura means a laurel or famous (Latin) and Frances is a Teutonic word meaning free. There were a couple of photos in Dr. Steele's office I wish you can see sometime. A former patient made them with black ink and pen on white paper and then a photograph of the sketching was taken. It makes a lovely black & white photo. One is on a real old wheel mostly