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

1942-09-26 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 1

817-19 St. S.E.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
September 26, 1942
Dearest,
Your letter written on Wednesday came today. Tuesday's writing hasn't arrived yet. Since you said in the one I got today that you hadn't missed writing every day, then I decided the mails just got jiggered up again for no good reason. There is a barn dance on the radio now, and it certainly sounds like the Old Fiddlers contest that we saw and heard. I'm practically cured now. Normal temp all day, had a lot of vegetables and fruit juice besides my morning quart of brine! Dr gave me another treatment today and said I could go to work Monday. Then after work I'm to have another one. Then one on Wednesday so I'll be real fit to go see you even if I do have to hurry all week doing county work. Ardy stayed last night, fired up for me this morning and I was alone for the rest of the day. At 5 o'clock I went out. I went to dressmaker to get my red skirt fitted so I could have my warmest suit to wear to work on Monday. Then I bought groc and came right home. I wasn't out an hour in all. I wore a lot of clothes so I would not feel the damp cold air we have now. After my outing and exercise and all I still felt OK and had a normal temp so I know I'm cured now. This is as long as I've been sick without stirring outside at all since I don't know when, a high school Christmas vacation I guess. I

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817-19 St. S.E. Cedar Rapids, Iowa September 26, 1942 Dearest, Your letter written on Wednesday came today. Tuesday's writing hasn't arrived yet. Since you said in the one I got today that you hadn't missed writing every day, then I decided the mails just got jiggered up again for no good reason. There is a barn dance on the radio now, and it certainly sounds like the Old Fiddlers contest that we saw and heard. I'm practically cured now. Normal temp all day, had a lot of vegetables and fruit juice besides my morning quart of brine! Dr gave me another treatment today and said I could go to work Monday. Then after work I'm to have another one. Then one on Wednesday so I'll be real fit to go see you even if I do have to hurry all week doing county work. Ardy stayed last night, fired up for me this morning and I was alone for the rest of the day. At 5 o'clock I went out. I went to dressmaker to get my red skirt fitted so I could have my warmest suit to wear to work on Monday. Then I bought groc and came right home. I wasn't out an hour in all. I wore a lot of clothes so I would not feel the damp cold air we have now. After my outing and exercise and all I still felt OK and had a normal temp so I know I'm cured now. This is as long as I've been sick without stirring outside at all since I don't know when, a high school Christmas vacation I guess. I