Sgt Stanley W Safford
39539976
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Ft
Sam Houston
Texas
October 3, 1943
My Dear Mother:
Here it is again Sunday and
another letter to you. For the first time
in quite awhile the sun has come up in the morning nice and bright.
Will the story is now that
the First Auxiliary Surgical Group
was flown over to England when they
went over. I am still waiting for a
letter from the boy that I knew in the group.
Last evening the clerk in HdQ
and myself went up town and he bought a couple things to take home with him
when he goes this coming Monday night.
He is going to be there in LA because his aunt lives there in Hollywood. He is the one who is Jewish and has only been
here in this country about four or five years.
Don’t be surprised if he calls you up, he mentioned doing so. He bought a couple of those hand painted
wooden trays and also a couple day hand painted piggy banks which were both
exceptionally pretty especially the bright colors on the trays. I think that I will send Ann Reid next door a little bank for I think that she would like
one of them although they have to be broken when you wish to get the money out
of them but they are so inexpensive.
While down there I also bought a couple of those very beautiful feather
picture cards which I am going to enclose one of in this letter. You will like them. I am going to get some
more and have you keep them for me. So that someday I may frame them.
Well Major Skinner kept his promise this time as you have noticed by
this time by the return address.
The clipping which you
enclosed in your last letter about the heat in L.A. was a nice one, but I
believe that it was about Thursday that I heard they were having a heat wave in
L.A.
I wish that I had had a lot more time at home
when I could have enjoyed my phonograph and the records which I have and also
those which you brought while I have been gone, and I could have had a lot more
time for the garden also.
I received a card from Jay
the other day and it was one of Luccas(?) so evidently he had eaten there for
he spoke of not having the same waitress and of also having more olives.
The ointment is spelled
Whitfeilds[1] I
believe but I will get the correct spelling later. Also I will get those things sent to Aunt Nina (Blue glass) before long.
I did accomplish the writing
of twelve letters this last week-end and still have a few more to write although
nothing urgent. I will write Cousin
Gertrude in the next couple days since I received a letter from her before I
came home so it is about time that I write her one.
If you get a box of wild
pecans one of these days don’t be surprised for one of these days I am going
out down along the creek and gather a few.
They are just beginning to ripen and they should be very good for the
wild ones always have a task which is entirely different.
The trees around here are now
beginning to look as tho winter were really coming because they have shed all
their small leaves and all that is left is the large one. And the lawns around the large homes are
beginning to become covered with them.
No longer is the Crape Myrtle in bloom and they are also beginning to
look quite ragged.
I went down also yesterday
and looked for some more elephants for Aunt
Maibelle but they had none which were different than what I had already
sent her. SO I will look somewhere else and try and find some that are
different but not too expensive. Could
you sometime when down in Chinatown get a hold of a small package of Jessamine
tea and sent it to me. I was telling Mrs. Tedesco about it and she said that
she had never tasted any of it. What
brought the subject up was she asked me if I liked hot tea and I told her
yes. She then said that she was going to
have me and a couple others over some rainy afternoon for tea.
The picture of her in the
blazer which I sent you, are very poor of her.
But you know what some of these amateur photographers are. While on the subject she has a very pretty set
of Blue Glass wine bottle and
glasses which she bought down at the same place which those of mine came
from. She also has a wonderful lace
table clot which is very old which she used at one of the buffet suppers I went
to.
Well the afternoon drags on
and I shall soon run out of news. Major Kuhns was just in and is on his
way out to pick up his father who has never had a plane ride out, at the
airport for when he heard of the baby’s arrival he decided to fly down.
Give my regards to Aunt Nina
and I will close now with lots of love,
Your son,
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