DATE: 03/20/1944
SENDER: Helen Potter Stuckey (HPS)
SEND LOCATION: Gilman House, Phillips Exeter Academy (PEA), Exeter, NH
RECIPIENT: Gordon Thomas Kinder, Jr. (GTK)
RECIPIENT LOCATION: Kington, Herefordshire, England
She & Howard S. Stuckey (Ty) (HSS) clipping and sending crossword puzzles to GTK and to Phil Giddings, her nephew, a doctor at the Anzio hospital that was bombed. He was lightly wounded. He had not yet seen his son, born in 1943. William G. Saltonstall back from the Pacific where he’d been on a carrier. [Bunker Hill. ‘W.G. Saltonstall Chosen Exeter Principal, Faculty Navy Veteran Succeeding Perry’, NYTimes, June 3, 1946, p. 23.] She & HSS working on Red Cross fund and blood drives. Short on funds for vacation due to education expenses and war bonds. Ann Cary Stuckey Kinder (CSK) looking for teaching job. Questions about GTK’s time in Kington, especially hunting. Has a really good idea on US soldiers’ pay while in UK. Grateful to CSK and Madeline Cushman Stuckey (Cush) for sending them food ration points. Phillips Exeter Academy keeps their ration books to cover dining hall meals.