Encoded for the Veterans History Project, July 18, 2022.
All letters in the John Aubrey Enman, Jr. collection were digitized.
The following letters were transcribed from the handwritten originals by Veterans History Project staff. No alterations to this transcription has been made, although spelling errors are indicated with [sic]. Any special emphasis (i.e. underlining) is presented *between asterisks*.
1. Jan. 17, 1945
Dear Julie,
Toll house cookies are my favorite cookie: those cans you send with T.H.C. ^[Note: ? [?] 1992]^ cut to fit were as fresh as they were when you canned them - and the taste and flavor are, were I mean, such that if you ever again get any excess you can't dispose of just send them in the direction of 885. ^(cookies reads like I mean cans)^ Enjoyed the Bangor News also - much more enjoyable than "The Statesman" of Delhi.
Not all packages arrived here before Christmas. Most of mine came afterwards, but it makes no difference as Christmas didn't seem much different from any other day, and with the great eating splurges over, packages coming in now
fill up the depleted stocks.
for about the first time I didn't get a striped necktie - and this would have been the year I wouldn't have minded it. Majority of things - everyone included - was food - candy, meats, cookies, preserves, cake (fruit), and along the non edible lines were books. Got about a dozen of those from Marco Polo thru Sherwood Anderson. But the one book I want most is the one that goes with the geography course that I signed up for last August.
Had a humorous ^incident^, to me as well as everyone that knew about, altho I thought it a little gruesome at the time connected with aforementioned course. In December I got a book from the geography dept. I opened
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it, thankful that it had finally arrived. Only the title of the book I got was "Types of Religious Philosophy." Suppose I should have been philosophical about the whole thing and decided to have become a minister. But I read through part of it, which was no consolation, and settled on geography as being better for me. No sense in being a hypocrite.
Want to thank you again also for the pine needles and Christmas card, Julie. I hope that we'll be able to celebrate the second anniversary of this correspondence when the proper time rolls around. Have your recipe book on the way, but if packages take the time they have been of late it will most likely be along
in March before you ever get it. There are a lot of fancy European ones, from ^what^ I saw, but some that are what you could call Indian. Will have to try some Indian food sometime. But some of the pastry isn't so much to my liking - little greasy and spicy.
How are you, your family and the state of Maine at present? If your brother still in school? And how is the teaching? The results you sent were good enough for A's for all that took part in the preparation.
And how is Bill? Will you accept belated congratulations on the first anniversary of your engagement? The lucky guy!!
Hope to hear from you soon
Johnny.
Sgt. John Enman
2nd Photo Proc. Det.
APO 885 c/o PM NY
ans'd 2/2/45
Miss Julie Robbins
27 Broadway
Bangor,
Maine