Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett (December 1-22, 1944)

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Letter from Beth Puckett to her husband Lewis Puckett who was serving in the US Navy in the Pacific Theatre. The letters include several expressions of affection, loneliness, and longing. Other topics include parents moving, furniture arrangements, decency, looking at maps, enjoying going to see "Arsenic and Old Lace" at the movies, conversations with friends and family, jokes about a particular relative's girlfriend, Christmas cards, books banned from the naval library, updates on the children's behavior, buying stamps and bonds, the family radio, remembering where they were on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked, relatives redecorating, the church Christmas program, frustration over not being able to help Lewis through hardships, Christmas services and parties, shopping and Christmas gifts for the children, and friends' philosophical debates.