November 27, 1917

November 27, 1917

Crivitz, WI

Miss Rose Kraynick

1117 Eight St.,

Manitowoc, Wisc.

Dear Rose,

I am going to write you a line or two, but I want to tell you be-foure I start that I don’t think I will write very much. I had to wait in Green Bay from eleven until four-o-clock. So you see I am so sleepy I can’t hardly hold my eyes open. I didn’t get home this morning until 7-o-clock.

Well I am lonesome for you already. I don’t suppose you will miss me until Sun-day then you will get a chance to go out alone or with someone else.

Say I showed those pictures up in my room last night and laid them on the dresser and they are still there.

Well I don’t know what I could write to interest you as I don’t know how to write love letters. But I must say that I was to bashful to tell you to your face that I love you with all my heart and hope you think the same of me.

I like you better than any girl I ever saw and hope your ways and looks will never change.

I don’t think I will write eight pages like you do when you write home, because I wouldn’t know what to write.

When I got up at Denmark last night there was about an inch of snow. Up at Green Bay there wasn’t any. There isn’t any here either. This morning it was nice and warm, but it got cloudy and cold this afternoon. If I were down there I would have to go to bed to get warm. Here if I want to get warm all I have to do is make a fire.

But I am going back there to stay if I have to freeze.

I hope you will not feel affended of what I said in this letter. Please excuse paper and writing as it is the best I could do.

I will have to close for this time as I can’t think of any more and am pretty sleepy. Will close with love and hoping to hear from you real soon. Your moving picture friend, Douglas Martin, Beaver Wisc. R#1.