"Dear Mother & All" Letter
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Title
"Dear Mother & All" Letter
Subject
Hines, Joseph M. (1923-1969)
Toms Brook (Va)
World War (1939-1945)
Description
Letter sent by Joseph M. Hines, USMC, to his mother Mary Hines and family in Toms Brook Virginia. The letter was sent care of the Fleet Post Office, San Francisco California.
Creator
Joseph M. Hines
Source
Folder 1.7: Letters from Joseph Martin Hines USMC to Duval Hines and Mary Hines, 1944, Joseph Hines Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
April 6, 1944
Contributor
Susan Hines
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Language
English
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Text
Envelope:
P.F.F. J.M. Hines
C-1-24th-4th-Marine Div.
C/O Fleet. P.P.
San Francisco
Calif
Mrs. D.D. Hines
Toms Brook
Virginia
P.F.F. J.M. Hines
C-1-24th-4th-Marine Div.
C/O Fleet. P.P.
San Francisco
Calif
Mrs. D.D. Hines
Toms Brook
Virginia
Letter:
P.F.C. J.M. Hines
C-1-24th-4th-Marine Div.
c/0 Fleet PO. San Francisco
Calif.
Dear Mother & All,
I am waiting to go on mess duty so I have a little time to write. I didn’t get to town to get any Easter cards, but I think you are like me and would rather have a letter. When I did get the chance to get the cards they would have been too late so here is a letter better late than never.
I have been waiting for you to write and say you heard from me before I answered but I think it takes too long that way so I’ll write oftener.
I am in a divisional show that is touring the Island, I’ll enclose what the paper says about our show. (I sing in the group of five mentioned. About that book I think they were putting some things in it about our invasion of Namur, so I guess you will get it sometime.
I’m ok. Just remember as long as you hear from me I’m ok because if anything happened you would be the first to know.
I have been hearing from Margaret quite often. I received three letters and a picture in four days, not bad. I haven’t heard from Leila in about two weeks.
Well so long for now.
Love,
Joe
P.F.C. J.M. Hines
C-1-24th-4th-Marine Div.
c/0 Fleet PO. San Francisco
Calif.
Dear Mother & All,
I am waiting to go on mess duty so I have a little time to write. I didn’t get to town to get any Easter cards, but I think you are like me and would rather have a letter. When I did get the chance to get the cards they would have been too late so here is a letter better late than never.
I have been waiting for you to write and say you heard from me before I answered but I think it takes too long that way so I’ll write oftener.
I am in a divisional show that is touring the Island, I’ll enclose what the paper says about our show. (I sing in the group of five mentioned. About that book I think they were putting some things in it about our invasion of Namur, so I guess you will get it sometime.
I’m ok. Just remember as long as you hear from me I’m ok because if anything happened you would be the first to know.
I have been hearing from Margaret quite often. I received three letters and a picture in four days, not bad. I haven’t heard from Leila in about two weeks.
Well so long for now.
Love,
Joe
Original Format
Envelope and Letter (2 pages)
Collection
Citation
Joseph M. Hines
, “"Dear Mother & All" Letter,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 20, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/11633.
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