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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, September-October 1942

1942-09-21 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

end before your birthday for fear you might be moved that Sat or Sun and we'd be cheated out of our visit. As I plan it now, I'll leave at 2:00 o'clock in the morning of Oct 1 and arrive in Spartanburg in the afternoon of Friday, October 2. Then we'll see each other every possible minute. The first day (Oct 2) I'll go to the Richmond Hotel and you come in as soon as you can. That should give me a time and place to clean up and be ready to visit with you without any unnecessary interruptions. The writing it down almost seems unreal. I won't allow myself to believe it until I've really left Cinn. on the proper train for fear something may happen and we will be disappointed. We'll hope and pretend but not really believe it until you have me in your arms again. Maurice wrote today. He doesn't know yet when he's through or what leave he has. He may know in a couple days and will write then. He'll try to go to your camp if you or I are there and his leave is too short (he thinks it will be) to go to F.D. He then goes overseas, or, else to an island off So Carolina for a two month course if he can get that appointment. If I could keep both of you in the same general direction and in U.S.A I would be pleased. But no hopes of that. If the army & the navy ever can visit each other when things are so uncertain for each of you, that will be

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end before your birthday for fear you might be moved that Sat or Sun and we'd be cheated out of our visit. As I plan it now, I'll leave at 2:00 o'clock in the morning of Oct 1 and arrive in Spartanburg in the afternoon of Friday, October 2. Then we'll see each other every possible minute. The first day (Oct 2) I'll go to the Richmond Hotel and you come in as soon as you can. That should give me a time and place to clean up and be ready to visit with you without any unnecessary interruptions. The writing it down almost seems unreal. I won't allow myself to believe it until I've really left Cinn. on the proper train for fear something may happen and we will be disappointed. We'll hope and pretend but not really believe it until you have me in your arms again. Maurice wrote today. He doesn't know yet when he's through or what leave he has. He may know in a couple days and will write then. He'll try to go to your camp if you or I are there and his leave is too short (he thinks it will be) to go to F.D. He then goes overseas, or, else to an island off So Carolina for a two month course if he can get that appointment. If I could keep both of you in the same general direction and in U.S.A I would be pleased. But no hopes of that. If the army & the navy ever can visit each other when things are so uncertain for each of you, that will be