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    The only studying I’ve done is that 100 pages of French outside reading—the exam in it is today so I guess I’ll have to make it up too. Somehow this place isn’t condusive to study and I haven’t felt like it until the last couple of days.
    I’m only taking 4 subjects—which is minimum—but 2 (Physics and Eng[lish literature] I) are pretty tough. However there’s no backing down or changing now—I’ll just hang on and hope for the best.
    Love
    Bill

    To Edith Gaddis
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
    [4 November 1941]
    Dear Mother—
    Gosh—Dr. Contratto must have written you an encouraging letter—we were so certain I’d be out for the next Army game and now you don’t mention it, but say you’re coming up—I tell you gee—I feel good and have no temperature at all —always normal now; only a small stomach which seems to be going down slowly—I still think I’ll be out for Saturday’s game—I can’t see why not, and yet this whole thing is so screwy and is getting me so mad—that is, if I don’t get out by Saturday.
    I’d like to know what those two thot about the ultimate outcome—I don’t see why I can’t make up 4 weeks’ work—I’m not worrying about that—my English A is almost made up already; my Eng I reading is getting done; Physics and French I’m letting go, but I think I might be able to catch up on them even without tutors, tho tutors might prove to be adviseable. I don’t see why I should worry about being a freshman next year—unless Dean Leighton suggested it—because I can do this work and I’m getting out soon, or know why.
    As for talk of my graduating class—I doubt if many of us will graduate. That is far ahead any way, and even so I’ll be draft-meat in a couple of years, and I’m going to beat them to it. [...]
    Love
    Bill

    Dr. Contratto: Dr. Andrew W. Contratto, who practiced in Cambridge at this time.

    To Edith Gaddis
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
    [13 November 1941]
    Dear Mother—
    The freighter to L.A. sounds great—just perfect and I’d like it best if possible. 10,000 tons is a fair sized ship—it sounds good and ought to ride well. I think the Japs are the least of our worries—time seems to be the thing now. I might stay in L.A. for a couple of days and send ahead to find out about right reservations to my destination. I think as for cost it may be even if not slightly less, considering 21 days aboard ship with meals is equivalent to 3 weeks of boarding somewhere .
    That’s swell about the 15% on American Airlines and it would be fairly and comparatively inexpensive to fly to Baltimore with time at home such a premium.
    If it is at all possible please pull every string to make the freighter trip possible—it would be just what I wanted and would work out more perfectly and best for me if it can be done—
    Love
    Bill
    P.S. She’s a midget
    P.P.S.—What is time of sailing from Baltimore?

    the Japs are the least of our worries: three weeks later the Japanese would bomb Pearl Harbor.
    To Edith Gaddis
    [ WG left Harvard on November 21, and a week later shipped out from Baltimore on the SS West Portal . ]
    Barker Hotel
    2000 Miramar Street
    Los Angeles, California
    [2 January 1942]
    Dear Mom.
    It is such a long time since I wrote and I don’t know what customs in Panama let thru that I’ll have a hard time remembering everything.
    We were half way thru the Canal when Japan declared war, having arrived at Colon early that morning (Atlantic side). At 7 o’clock the canal was blacked out except for guide lights on the banks and the ship ran with only running and mast head and stern lights. We reached Balboa late that nite (pacific side) and despite war went ashore while ship took on oil. Panama City wasn’t blacked-out and it was really an intriguing city. Then we returned to the boat and sailed late the next afternoon. About 9 that nite however things in the Pacific were getting pretty lively as we swung around and were anchored in