Friday noon

[May 7, 1943-jlt]

Dear Mavis,

It seems as if your husband is back in the writing mood again for this is the 3rd day in succession that I have written you. Must be getting homesick to see you. Received the letters you wrote Monday afternoon and Tuesday this morning. I would have been very disappointed if I had not heard from you. Guess our Johnnie is doing all right. I have been carrying his pictures around with me showing them.

I stopped in town a few minutes yesterday afternoon and saw Brother Hartsfield on the street. He was surprised when I told him you and the Big Boy were in North Carolina. That's what he called Johnnie when he asked how you both were doing. He talked about himself. He said that gas was bad stuff. He really looked better to me than the last time I saw him. Wanted us to come see him when you returned home.

We had a little shower yesterday afternoon, just enough to stop the work. They got a good rain in Rosedale. The crops are looking good and they are clean for one more time. Wish I had this crowd of choppers I am using in Mr. Shinn's field. It wouldn't be long until he would be out of the grass.

The rain stopped us from the field yesterday afternoon around 5:45 PM and I carried them home early, so I got through with my work early and Mama, Ruthel and I went to the picture show. It was supposed to be a double feature but the one show they had was so long until they had only one show. Fredric March, Margarette Sullivan were the players in "So Ends Our Night". It was three hours long or it token that long to show it. I think it was really the greatest love story I have ever seen on the screen. Wonder if it has been to Concord yet?

There is nothing happening here worth writing about so will make this one short. I hope you are feeling all right and that the poison is gone from your hands. I hope it won't be long until I can get a letter from you that will sound like this, "Johnnie and I are both doing just fine."

With love,

Ruel