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Charles Ticknor World War II Letter and Envelope, June 4, 1944Entry/Object ID
1940.1.94Description
Letter written to Frank and Alma Ticknor by Charles Ticknor when he was stationed in England during World War II. Letter is dated June 4, 1944. Letter is three pages with envelope.Acquisition
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1940.1Notes
Marty Douce CollectionTranscription
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England
June 4, 1944.
Dear Frank & Alma,
Rec’d your letter of May 22 June 3rd. I suppose by this time your finished with the painting and trimming and glad of it. I’ll bet the place looks ritzy. Are many of the houses around there being painted?
My god where in the hell did you ever plant 300 evergreens and what are you going to do with them? What did they cost you? What will they bring (?) in when they are 5 or 6 years old? How many potatoes are you putting in this year?
A party told me they didn’t see you at lodge very often anymore. So you haven’t seen our girl friends lately eh? Whats the matter you slipping. Its starting to rain here. Who do you classify as our girl friends anyway? Careful. Frank.
Plan on going to the show to-nite Flying Tigers is on. Have seen it but quite a long time ago. “Hey Rookie” was an entertaining show. Army film, lot of laughs. We have them every nite in the mess hall.
Looks like it aims to rain for some time.
Played a couple of games of mush ball last week. Enough to get a pretty sore arm anyway.
Elva sent me a picture of Bill in her last letter. He’s getting to be quite a guy. I guess you folks don’t get up that way very often. Bob & Chuck write a few lines to me now & then. They get along good in school although now I suppose they are through for the summer.
Nope Frank the Pubs won’t compare with the nightspots at home nor come close. You spend an evening in a pub there is nothing to do but drink beer. If your lucky you might get a little whiskey. You might get feeling good if you drink the beer from opening time until closing time and drink it (word illegible) enough. Britain’s peace time beer is pretty powerful tho, so they say. Outside the shows & pubs theres very little entertainment in England now. I guess London has it all. Woman might offend some, I don’t know.
(I guess your smiling on that.)
I think I’m suffering with that Hawaiian (?) disease. Ha Ha. All kidding aside the English girl is oke. Any girl, and there are lots of them, who puts on overalls and pitches hay etc. 10 & 12 hours a day has really got the spirit and deserves a pat on the back. They run tractors too, just most any kind of farmwork. They are called Womens Land Arm (W.L.A.) and their uniforms are not very becoming.
Well will sign off for this time hoping to her from you soon again. Show time.
With Best Wishes,
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Charles Ticknor, Frank Ticknor, Alma Orr TicknorCreated By
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March 22, 2022Updated By
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March 23, 2022