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1942-11-18 Joseph Evans to Mary Evans Page 1
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1182 Locust Street Dubuque, Iowa 18 November 1942 Dear Mary Ellen - It was I who should have written first, and I'm sorry I didn't, but the reason is simple: I went to Rochester on Friday and returned only today. I arrived in Dubuque a week ago tonight, and Father and I decided I should go to Rochester when I did in order to anticipate gas rationing and to take advantage of the perfectly beautiful weather. I intended to come back on Monday, but Meg became very ill with her skin difficulties and wished me to stay a little longer. She will probably have to go to the hospital again; as it is, she cannot work. Anyway, rumor to the contrary, I did not get married, though I was tempted to, and not out of pity either. Thank you so much for sending the boxes, and with such promptness; I am sorry I had to leave all that on your hands. I'm sorry too about the bonds; I thought they were in your name. I think you should hang on to them as security, and will pay you back the fifty gradually after I am in Army; then you can turn them over to Father. I am enclosing a money order for the forty I borrowed before leaving Washington - thanks ever so much for that; you have certainly been grand about that and everything else. I am sure you realize that
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1182 Locust Street Dubuque, Iowa 18 November 1942 Dear Mary Ellen - It was I who should have written first, and I'm sorry I didn't, but the reason is simple: I went to Rochester on Friday and returned only today. I arrived in Dubuque a week ago tonight, and Father and I decided I should go to Rochester when I did in order to anticipate gas rationing and to take advantage of the perfectly beautiful weather. I intended to come back on Monday, but Meg became very ill with her skin difficulties and wished me to stay a little longer. She will probably have to go to the hospital again; as it is, she cannot work. Anyway, rumor to the contrary, I did not get married, though I was tempted to, and not out of pity either. Thank you so much for sending the boxes, and with such promptness; I am sorry I had to leave all that on your hands. I'm sorry too about the bonds; I thought they were in your name. I think you should hang on to them as security, and will pay you back the fifty gradually after I am in Army; then you can turn them over to Father. I am enclosing a money order for the forty I borrowed before leaving Washington - thanks ever so much for that; you have certainly been grand about that and everything else. I am sure you realize that
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