Arnold's Story: June 1, 1948 WEN

Bill Nevis writes to his son Arnold about Arnold's planned visit on July 4. Bill is excited to create some  space in their adjacent orchard for a game area — horseshoes, archery and croquet.

Hazel's health issue may be ongoing cancer treatments. 

We learn that Bill and the family did make it to Boston after all to visit Arnold at Harvard and to see Bill's birth place in North Boston during that East Coast trip to New York City.

Wallace is probably Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President and suspected communist sympathizer (for his conciliatory policies towards the Soviet Union and progressive views of public school desegregation, racial and gender equality, national health insurance, and other leftist ideas). 

He does end up purchasing an Airstream travel trailer and joining a travel club for holiday trips. They still had it in the 1960s when we visited California, but kept it in Hemet, California when they were not using it on the road. They drove it across the country in the very early 1960s when they visit Arnold and his family in Gainesville, Florida. I remember it parked in the back yard for a few weeks.

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Leonard's Story: August 19, 1944

In this V-Mail letter, we see Leonard is the censor. (I don't know what the '18' is at the bottom of the v-mail.)

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          TO LT Arnold H. Nevis              FROM  Lt. L J Nevis

                Unit 3510                                        APO 45751

                TS-Yale Univ.                                  c/o Postmaster

                 New Haven, Conn.                         San Francisco, Calif.

        LJNevis

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Dear Arnold                                         19 Aug 44

     Please forgive me if you are now a Lieut. and if so congratulations

of the highest order. Well I am now on an island, somewhere in the

Pacific. The weather is hot and humid, it reminds me of North Carolina

in July. It really knows how to rain here, it feels like you were

under Boulder Dam and the bottom fell out. I can hardly wait for the

rainy season to start.

     The more I see around here the more I wonder why I tried so hard

to go overseas. Of course I am disappointed that I did'nt get to go the

other way, but I guess things are not to hot over there either. So

don't get rash and attempt to jump on a boat. You'll see what it is

like soon enough. Besides the more training you get the better off

your men and you will be.

     Write and let me know what you are doing now, and just becaus e

you don't receive an answer, don't let it stop youfrom writing another

letter. I don't know when I will be able to mail another letter.

     I have'nt received any mail since I left, and if I keep moving

about I don't know when it will catch up with me. You might include

news of Flavell, Fischer, and some of the other fellows from home.

And say hello to them if you see any of them.

                                        Love

                                           Leonard

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