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

1942-09-22 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 2

Today was a hard day as far as my work went as I had a very trying case of an eviction that I worked on from 9:00 am to 2:30 (15 min lunch) before I had the family under one roof and their household possessions planned for under another and Mr "Garden" Smith and the work relief boys moving the stuff with the red pick-up. But everything works out if you hold on to temper and reel off the talk until you get whatever is necessary. Chas Bues is trying to get into the marines, I haven't quite recovered as he was such a sissy, but I never saw him looking in better physical condition than today. Maybe his wife is a better influence for him than all the various girl friends were. Read you letter while I stopped for a hasty snack at home. Have reread it too but will be doing that again when I go to bed. If we are lucky in ten days I'll be there. Then for a couple days we will have something better than letters alone. And a vacation from writing letters too. Only it is nice to write them when we can't be together. It was about the 24th of September that we had the thing you recalled as the first, and how you thought about it and

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Today was a hard day as far as my work went as I had a very trying case of an eviction that I worked on from 9:00 am to 2:30 (15 min lunch) before I had the family under one roof and their household possessions planned for under another and Mr "Garden" Smith and the work relief boys moving the stuff with the red pick-up. But everything works out if you hold on to temper and reel off the talk until you get whatever is necessary. Chas Bues is trying to get into the marines, I haven't quite recovered as he was such a sissy, but I never saw him looking in better physical condition than today. Maybe his wife is a better influence for him than all the various girl friends were. Read you letter while I stopped for a hasty snack at home. Have reread it too but will be doing that again when I go to bed. If we are lucky in ten days I'll be there. Then for a couple days we will have something better than letters alone. And a vacation from writing letters too. Only it is nice to write them when we can't be together. It was about the 24th of September that we had the thing you recalled as the first, and how you thought about it and