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From E. Ingels Ward 15, Letterman Hospital San Francisco, U.S.A.
Lieutenant Fauna Wynne Farris Air Service
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Jan. 14, 1919
Dear
Just because it's late, I'm sending you a note. I should go to bed like a good girl I've been reading episodes from Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" aloud and we've been giggling. It's delightful! Have you ever read it? Also, I've been smoking some new Egyptian cigarettes which were presented to me by a patient. He's a nineteen
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year old boy whom we all adore, and he thought it was a huge joke. They are very fragrant and I enjoy them entirely too much for my own peace of mind. I hope no one else presents me with Egyptian cork-tips. I'm liable to become an inveterate smoker I, who only a month or so ago, told you I didn't see how you like to smoke - it seemed such a dirty habit. But now I see very clearly why you like it - in fact it was in order to see that I learned how. And I'll be willing to wager that you won't like to see me smoke. The Presidio is quarantined again and now such an era of crabbing as will commence. No more visits to town, no more callers, no more booze, no more furloughs! It is hard on them, poor kids! We're getting lots of new patients in
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now, thanks be. My Howler howls worse every morning altho' he's already showing signs of improvement. The Lord prevent me from ever pitying myself to the exclusion of every other sentiment. I must lie to bed. This is just a hello-good-bye note - just to let you know I'm thinking of you and loving you always.
From your own girl.
