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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes a conversation with one of the "natives" about love and marriage.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond tells Estelle that they will get married immediately upon his return. He states that if anything happens to him she should know one thing: "I've led a full pleasant life - I missed out on but one thing - marriage…"

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he had gone into the jungle to inspect the impact area of yesterday's firing. He describes a discussion with the other officers based upon the question: "What will the people back home say to us when we return?""

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond complains about the hypocrisy of friends back home who are giving speeches in his honor, but who have failed to write to him

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he has been made a First Lieutenant.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the soldiers from New Zealand that he has been working with.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond refers to some of Estelle's letters that he has received.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond provides commentary on the photographs that he has enclosed.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond reassures Estelle that the nurse featured in one of the photographs that he had sent home is engaged.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that, upon his return, he plans to lock himself in a room for month and "sleep and sleep and sleep".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses problems pertaining to the soldiers' ballot for the presidential election.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he feels surprisingly calm about the prospect of going into battle: "there is only the quietness of heart & body".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond instructs Estelle to be good, happy and to keep her level head.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that they are "bon-voyaging again."

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond asks Estelle to send V-mails in addition to her lengthy air mail letters, as he receives his parents' fairly regularly.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the "situation continues as usual", with everything "wet, damp, moldy" from the rain.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that "the hunger for home grows increasingly great".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that "there is little if anything new to report".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes his "politics" to Estelle.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that the lack of mail has been caused by his being involved in combat, "front line stuff". He writes that he has "seen 'war' minus hollywood's beauty."

photocopy

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond praises his men in their initiation into battle. He complains about the difficulty of seeing clearly on the front line, and also writes that he would give up a year's salary for a decent night's sleep.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he is "used to it by now. [His] nerves have settled down to their usual steady jangle."

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he wants "home - out of this mess…"

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the telephone operator, Kallor, as a Jewish dress cutter from New York who is in Sidney's father's union.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond comments that he has never been ill during his army career.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes Estelle a "short note in field on message & overlay paper."

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that their "apartment will have a double apron barbed wire fence about it covered by a slew of machine guns to keep all relatives away…"

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Sketch of Stanley Diamond as a boy

Diamond writes that the mouth is "too feminine".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond again describes the process of selecting observational posts in trees.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond asks Estelle to send him a book once a month to entertain him.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond apologizes for having neglected Estelle on St. Valentines day.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes using the typewriter in terms of a battle offensive.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he intends to attend his battalion motion picture show that evening.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he imagines embracing Estelle.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond reports that that evening they had gone to the cinema to see the film, "The Affairs of Martha

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses the "present conflict" between labor and industry.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond talks of the constant rain, his desire for good cuisine and a recent nightmare about an air raid.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that his outfit boasts "a washing machine, ice box, and recently a generator & electric lights

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes his day as "quiet, dull, routine rot!"

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond tells Estelle that he no longer has "that burning hatred of the jungle and its mysteries", commenting on how peculiar it is that "a man can adapt himself to this way of living".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes writing to the wife of one of his men about his death, an experience that made him realize the "ridiculous emptiness of words".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the interior of his tent. He writes that it is "grand to be alive and well".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond tells Estelle that her "guy is getting along satisfactorily - nothing to write about of any consequence

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that his vocabulary is too limited to express how grateful he is for everything that she has done for him.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses his "bleak & uncertain" future.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the day had been spent climbing steep hills to O.P.s (observation posts), and describes the view from them. Sidney gives Estelle some instructions pertaining to the "money order" enclosed and requests some garden seeds...

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that she has become an integral part of his daily routine.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond implies that since it was a leap year, Estelle should have proposed to him.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that they are working on maps and overlap. He comments that he doesn't feel "poetic, romantic, jocular".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond mentions that "nearly everyone around has discovered someone they knew from back home

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