Oct. 11, 1954

Dear Ila Jean,

How everything with my best girl these day’s. I didn’t forget your middle name this is an answer to the lettler you wrote on the 7 of Oct. It was good to hear from you too. You want 9 kid’s when you get married and you say 5 give you hard times. I don’ know what too tell you about that. If I every get married it well be 3 or 4 that enough I think. In the lettler I wrote yesterday I said it looked like snow or rain well we had 1 or 2 inch of snow. Why do you want to give the freshman a hard time, when I was a freshman if any senior wanted to initation me that had to find me. I gave them a hard time. I don’t know anything about farmering I know it a lot of work. In the summer before I came into the army I would help my dad work the garden. We had a fine garden. You say you going to retire from school soon well when you retire I’ll be reade to get out of the army. So hurry up and retire, O’K? I haven’t been doing much of anything. I’ll weight till I get out of the army before I start work hard. I still don’t see why you didn’t take a part in the school play. Just think of all the fun you well miss. But that up to you weither or not you want a part in any school play. I wouldn’t work to hard on week-end at the Greenhouse if you have that much homework at night. But again that up to you I not going to tell any body how to run their life. When I get out of the army nobody going to tell me how to live mine. I’ll write when-every I get time. Well honey I can’t think of much more to write about now. So I well close for now. Be good and take care of yourself.

Love, ART