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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, April-December 1943

1943-09-05 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 2

(I've changed names of course). It seems unbelievable there could be the range of feelings of man and wife from the low level this letter I've copied shows to the good way we know.
Mary:-
Well you had to stick your neck out and have them people write you a letter to the Navy. You are asking for it in a big way and you are going to get more than you looked for before it is through. There will be a check for 75.00 sent to you around the first of the month and I want to see a wire here or where Im at for half of it every month or I will stop all of it and you can go to ... Any time that you think that I am sitting down here and doing the work and you are going to get the dough you are nuts. So make up your mind, I either get a wire each month of you dont get a sent. If i had not bough the Xmas card for you some time ago or you would not get it. and I dont care if you like it or not. Bill.
This is an exact copy a First Class Petty Officer wrote in the way of a letter to his wife, my client. There are four children (one only big enough to be of school age) and the wife in need of support. If he didn't have If he didn't have officers rating, the govt. dependents' allowance would be $92. He has been sending $20 until ARC wrote and then he figures out this way to get around it and still keep in the superior officers' good graces. He gets at least $140 wages -- 37.50 of which is rent allowance for married man. That is apparently all his conscience (I'm sure its non-existent as I've know him since 1938 and the whole history is like this) makes him give her. He ought to be able to have at least one crap game per pay!

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(I've changed names of course). It seems unbelievable there could be the range of feelings of man and wife from the low level this letter I've copied shows to the good way we know. Mary:- Well you had to stick your neck out and have them people write you a letter to the Navy. You are asking for it in a big way and you are going to get more than you looked for before it is through. There will be a check for 75.00 sent to you around the first of the month and I want to see a wire here or where Im at for half of it every month or I will stop all of it and you can go to ... Any time that you think that I am sitting down here and doing the work and you are going to get the dough you are nuts. So make up your mind, I either get a wire each month of you dont get a sent. If i had not bough the Xmas card for you some time ago or you would not get it. and I dont care if you like it or not. Bill. This is an exact copy a First Class Petty Officer wrote in the way of a letter to his wife, my client. There are four children (one only big enough to be of school age) and the wife in need of support. If he didn't have If he didn't have officers rating, the govt. dependents' allowance would be $92. He has been sending $20 until ARC wrote and then he figures out this way to get around it and still keep in the superior officers' good graces. He gets at least $140 wages -- 37.50 of which is rent allowance for married man. That is apparently all his conscience (I'm sure its non-existent as I've know him since 1938 and the whole history is like this) makes him give her. He ought to be able to have at least one crap game per pay!