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                            Bemidji, Minn.
                            May 12, '42

Darling Elsie -
  Darling, hurry up and get well, please ------ I'm getting so lonesome for you I hardly know what to do with myself. I talked to your mother on the phone today and told her how you were getting along. I got up at 2:30 today and helped with the salvage for Victory Drive. 40 truck-loads of salvage was picked up around here between 4:00 and 6:00 this P.M. Ralph Kingsbury is getting out of the hospital tomorrow morning. He is swearing out a warrant against Slough for assault. I stopped at the hospital and left a few bananas for him while I was on my way down here to work. Oh say, and Darling I am enclosing a clipping from the Pioneer. I told Frank that it goes to show that he's only half the man that his dad was. Frank got quite a kick out of my remark. Strawberries, strawberries and more strawberries. That's all I see around here lately. I've still got to look over 5 or 6 more crates, besides doing all the packing on the Cass Lake orders before I go home in the morning. There has been enough work around here nights for 2 men this week but still no help. I forgot to bring an envelope & stamp with me tonite, so I guess I better go home and get them so I can mail this to you now. I haven't heard any more from Vernon & Dort nor from Jack either. Naomi heard from Jack though. He is now at Fort Ored, Calif. I thought maybe if Jess happened to be going to the Forks this week, I would go with him and visit you while he's loading at the Forks. But Homer said there would be nothing at the Forks this week, so I guess that's out. Chet Carlson was over there Monday. Rolland said that he plans to return his sugar rationing card to the board because the law prohibits anyone obtaining a card if 12 meals or more are eaten away from home, and then he turns around and started bawling out Naomi because she did not put enough sugar in his Thermos bottle. So I told him if he wants sugar in his coffee, he could either turn over his rationing card to me or else get his board and room elsewhere. I don't know now just what he is going to do, but he sure cooled down, believe you me.
   Gee whiz, Darling, I must get back to those berries. It's after 1 A.M. now. But I'll be writing you again tomorrow night sweetie. So-long till then.

                    Oceans of Love
                         From Irvin



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