Dear Ruth,
I believe you are making a regular dollie out of the kitten. I wish you had the little doll carriage. I bet he would like to ride in it too and be all tucked in like a regular baby. Your garden is nice. Am going to have radishes out of it for my dinner, and the hollyhocks are just loaded with buds. The bachelor button plant in the little round garden is crowding the other plants and I don’t know what to do about it. It has pushed the others against the fence.
I bought a box of strawberries the first day I was home and I ate some of them fresh for dinner and then I cooked the rest of them. I wish you could have helped me eat them for they were real good. Well I’m telling you children all the news so guess Mother’s letter will be short.
Love from Daddy