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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, April -August, 1942
1942-06-27 Page 3
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If all I were ever to have with you were a few months now I'd rather have them than to go thru life being carefully protected from suffering. We grow up thru it and I'd face whatever came. But I couldn't very well tell you that when you continually informed me that you didn't want to be bound. It shows how differently we regard it - I didn't feel as if it were chains, somehow. Of course my father's against it - and he'll be against it to the day he dies; but since I've found the one person who means more to me than my father I wouldn't bother with him, especially since mother's back of us. I might as well be completely honest and admit that I'm so sure how I feel about you that I would even have been willing to chuck up my job and take
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If all I were ever to have with you were a few months now I'd rather have them than to go thru life being carefully protected from suffering. We grow up thru it and I'd face whatever came. But I couldn't very well tell you that when you continually informed me that you didn't want to be bound. It shows how differently we regard it - I didn't feel as if it were chains, somehow. Of course my father's against it - and he'll be against it to the day he dies; but since I've found the one person who means more to me than my father I wouldn't bother with him, especially since mother's back of us. I might as well be completely honest and admit that I'm so sure how I feel about you that I would even have been willing to chuck up my job and take
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