5/29/44 (Original letter from Cy to Leo Huntoon, father of Cy’s best friend Johny Huntoon)
5/29/44 V-Mail, Italy
Hi Snooky:
How are you? Being a good girl? Damn it, I sure do wish I could be there so you wouldn’t have to.
My finger is now out of the bandage, but still sort of purple, and I don’t feel, quite up to pounding the typewriter with it.
The “Mademoiselle” arrived, but I may have to ask you get another one. In 
a moment of weakness, thinking the Wacs out in the switchboard room and teletype room might be interested, I sent it out there for the balance of the afternoon. Now I find that it is in the Wackery, and god only knows what’s left of it. Morale is up a hell of a lot. It is probably harder on a girl to wear the same clothes year in and year out than it is on a man. And I’m ready to admit it would feel nice to walk down the street in civilian clothes once again.
I hope the picture album you sent gets here by the time I get back from school as I have a whole drawerful of the things that need mounting. Nancy wrote a nice letter thanking me for the pin, and enclosing a pic of you in a swim suit. Gosh, you’re sure tanned nicely. My face and hands are tanned, but that is all that gets exposed. Maybe I can pick up a little tan swimming in Cairo. That school I mentioned is all set, and I shall leave day after tomorrow. I’m afraid mail from there will be slow, and I won’t have an American APO where I’m going, so I might have trouble mailing letters.
I saw Nickerson, who used to be in the service group at S’vah last night. He is a major now and doing a rather nice job. No mail from you for days.
All my love, Cy.