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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954

1942-01-28 Joseph Evans to Mary Evans Page 1

128 North Clinton
Iowa City, Iowa
28 January, 1942
Dear Mary Ellen - 
I am of course thrilled and delighted about your new job - it sounds very wonderful. I am sorry not to have written sooner, but I have been very busy and still am - hence, this will be necessarily brief. I returned to Iowa City Monday after a gruesome week-end with the army at Fort Des Moines - the result of which was that I am now officially classified as I-B (eligible for limited military service) on account of my eyes. In all probability I will not be called very soon (although there is no way of telling), but I am nevertheless leaving the University at this time, because I am still patriotic and I am still psycopathic. When I go home next week, I am going to try to enlist in the Yeoman's Service of the Navy, which takes care of the clerical work of the Navy and which (I think) does not demand perfect vision sans glasses. If this fails, however, I shall be very eager to get a job in the war program, and so I ask you

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128 North Clinton Iowa City, Iowa 28 January, 1942 Dear Mary Ellen - I am of course thrilled and delighted about your new job - it sounds very wonderful. I am sorry not to have written sooner, but I have been very busy and still am - hence, this will be necessarily brief. I returned to Iowa City Monday after a gruesome week-end with the army at Fort Des Moines - the result of which was that I am now officially classified as I-B (eligible for limited military service) on account of my eyes. In all probability I will not be called very soon (although there is no way of telling), but I am nevertheless leaving the University at this time, because I am still patriotic and I am still psycopathic. When I go home next week, I am going to try to enlist in the Yeoman's Service of the Navy, which takes care of the clerical work of the Navy and which (I think) does not demand perfect vision sans glasses. If this fails, however, I shall be very eager to get a job in the war program, and so I ask you