April 28, 1943

Envelope:
Mid'n C.M. Wenz
USNRMS (WR)
Room 510 - Hotel
Northampton, Mass.
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[This letter is typed in all caps.]


Wednesday Afternoon

Dear Mother,

This will have to be just a short note as I shall be studying for our last exam tomorrow. After that I shall be able to write some letters to catch up, I hope - that is if there is not too much excitement by that time.


Rumor has it that the first girls from our company have already received their orders for San Diego and more should come thru by the weekend. the whole thing is something of a farce in many ways because the orders for many of us are at the central office now awaiting retyping and distribution. The thing that we are most anxious about is the chance to get home. Just think, perhaps a week from today I'll be at home - nothing had better happen to keep me from coming. But you must not look for a wire since we are forbidden to send out word of where we are going and I think that the telephones are closed to us. I shall let you know what happens in the best and quickest way that I can - you cannot be any more curious about the whole thing than I am.


It is wonderful to think that our last exams will soon be finished/ I felt quite discouraged last Friday after doing poorly on one test, but I think I improved on Tuesday's so perhaps that will help my average. In many ways the courses have been more difficult than I expected. I have seen Miss Bissel briefly a few times and I shall try to see her on Friday or next Monday. It will be interesting to hear her reactions to the first weeks. By now her class is all in uniform, too, and when we graduate they will become the new midshipmen.


I am so eager to get home. Betty wrote a newsy letter and I have just heard from Audrey again. I am afraid that I shall simply burst if I do not get those four days that I am counting on so much. It looks to me that I shall have some talking to do with Allie again. What kind of a lease does he think he wants now? If the time were not so short I should like to see Hanna [the lawyer], too. I had meant to write to him to find exactly what had happened about the trial business, but I put it off and now it does not seem worth the while.

What has happened to Mrs. Black? You seem to have had a pleasant Easter after all, though I wish we could have been there. It did not seem very much like Easter here, tho with the flowers coming out and the trees turning green spring seems at last to be almost here.


If nothing happens I shall spend this weekend in Cambridge. I wish that it were not such a short time.


I'll write the most recent if not the most reliable scuttlebutt as it comes in.


Love,
Caroline
[Below signature, Caroline hand-wrote the following:] Payday today. $40 - making $120 in [?cell?] so far. We will get back pay and uniform money on graduating. Tickets will be furnished if go west of the Mississippi - otherwise we apply for the transportation cost after getting there.