Plans for 12-day leave
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310.4.1-3.2016 Transcription
3:30 PM 10 Sept 44
Oh, Dearest –––
It was so so good
to ta[lk] to you a few minutes ago.
Worth every cent of $4,000,003.00!! Just
to say –––– I love you so, means
so much!
Speaking of moneys worth ––––
maybe it was worth it for two
points more. (1) You probably couldn’t
have left for Boston (shopping?) Tues
noon had we not talked, or if you
had gone (shopping?) we really
would have been messed up on
meeting each other as to where &
when & what station. Gosh, I
might have even stayed on a
route bound for Worster → Ayer → etc.
So, just to reconfirm –––
even if the NY, NH & H wont trade
the ticket to ride simply Bos
New York → Boston, I will pay for a
[2]
NY→ Boston myself which SHOULD BE
A 7PM TRAIN ON THE NEW YORK – NEW
HAMPSHIRE, - & HARTFORD LINE ARRIVING
IN BOSTON @ 11:50 PM TUESDAY.
(Fran hurridly told me she thought
it pulled into Boston’s Old South
Station but you had better check this
point). Oh, yes, just to be all inclusive,
dear, don’t you wait around any
Boston RR station longer than 1AM to
2 AM but instead drive back home.
For example ––– these So[uth] Car[olina] ticket
agents are so unthorough & do
everything from memory–––just
suppose he was wrong here at the
Columbia station that an NY-NH & H
pulled NY → Boston @ 7PM; also that
they probably would swap my ticket;
[or] let alone that I can get from
the Penn RR Station (NY) to Grand
Central (NY) in time enough to argue
a ticket swap & catch a train all in 45 minutes. So, dearest, dont
you inconvenience yourself as
I could always hichhike (or bus-train)
[3]
out to Leominster in the wee hours.
(2) Also on your way to Boston Tues
afternoon you could stop at the
Devens[1] ration board & pick up the
Devens → Bismarck gas coupons. Other-
wise Id have to wait until 8:15AM
(or later) on Wed in order to get
underway.
[P.S. Ho! Ho! this whole long ¶ c̅[2] #1 & #2 seems
sorta silly if the mail snafu’s & you don’t
get this before you start out for Boston.][3]
Accordingly, I better quit
pretty soon so as to get this
started as soon as it can start
on a Sunday’s collection.
A.M.L.,[4]
P.S. this is supposed to be it (; Lv. Columbia 1:20 AM [Tues][5], AR
NY 6:15 PM (hurry like Hell from Grand Cent Stat to Penn Stat
to catch) a LV 7:00 PM train AR Boston 11:50 PM.
To explain further—I was just horribly
lucky to be granted a 12 day leave; even Majors
are getting 10 days or less. However a 12 day leave is
chronologically 13 days-minus-2-minutes. I sign
out one minute after midnight on Monday. I
will catch a train 1 hr & 19 minutes after I sign
out which is darn lucky. Coming back I must
[4]
sign in 1 minute before midnight on Sunday Sept
24th. Just to be frank as well as newsy—
if I fail to sign in (as above) I am AWOL &
AWOL under our present circumstances is
DESERTiON.
(Article of War #28) (Click?)
[1] An Army fort in Massachusetts.
[2] Medical abbreviation meaning “with.”
[3] Bracketed text is part of original.
[4] All my love.
[5] Bracketed text written above AM, with an arrow pointing to it, in original.