Tuesday, 30 May, 1944

2364226
Sergt. S. Bristow
Headquarters
15 L of C Signals                                                                 155.
Cen Med Forces

30 May 44

My Very Own Darling,

Following closely on the heels of your photograph came your air letter dated 23^rd May.  I really do believe that the Army Post Office is beginning to get organised!  Six days seems to be the average time for an air letter from this end.  How long does it take for one to get from me to you?

So you think you can afford to get thinner do you.  Well just you stay as you are – “spare tyre” and everything.  If you lose that I shall have to find something else to tease you about when I get home!!  Anyway Darling I want you to stay just the way you were when I left you.  That was the way I loved you and am still loving you.

You say that you think you are lucky having me.  Much rather it is the other way round.  I am lucky having you to stick by me during all these months of absence and I appreciate it more and more as the months pass by, Angel.  Not many girls would be satisfied to sit back and wait for an ordinary sort of guy like me, but you are doing it and making me very happy.  My only hope is that you won’t have to wait many more months.  It must be very tiring for you Darling, for are living a natural sort of life in proper surroundings.  It is slightly different with me, for you can’t call my life & surroundings “natural” by any stretch of imagination.

When I think how much longer the war is going to last I get very gloomy, but then I was always a pessimistic sort of cove & perhaps it will finish a lot quicker than I anticipate.

One thing makes the future always look very bright though Darling, and that is that both of us are agreed on what we want out of life when I get back to England and have our plans more or less settled as to how we wish to attain our goal.  You don’t know what a great comfort and help it is to know that I have such a grand girl as you waiting for my arrival home.

Yes, you have mentioned your friend Ivy to me once or twice before & my mother has also told me what a nice girl she is.  Meeting all your hospital friends is one of the many pleasures which awaits my arrival back in England.  Was Ivy the girl who lost her parents, by the way & has a small brother & sister?

I had a trip out into the country yesterday to inspect some men who are working at a place 50 miles away.  The countryside was very busy, as the harvest has started.  It is funny to see them cutting barley & wheat in May, but they have another crop before the year is out.

We had quite a good picture here last night – Jean Arthur & John Wayne in “Lady take a Chance” – which provided quite a few laughs.  She is quite a nice girl – next to you, of course.

Just room left, Angel, to tell you once more just how much I love you.  You mean everything to me, Darling.  Always yours, Stan   xxxx

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