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Dwight Eisenhower autograph letter signed from Europe during WWII. Dating his letter simply Tuesday, 2 March he writes to his wife Mamie. It reads in part: ''...My darling: What a morning! Two fine long letters from you...You told about...pulling out numbers for blood donors and signing an article for New Yorker. Also you spoke of a uniform. What it is I don't know - but I can tell you this; if you've gone into a uniform of any kind for any kind of war under my admiration for you is even greater than before. All through this publicity storm you've been tops - sensible, considerate and modest. But your example in showing the women of America how definitely they must get down to brass tacks in this thing is marvellous. God - how I wish I could help make all Americans feel the deadly seriousness of this task. You are all that any man could ask as a partner and a sweetheart. So Life [Magazine] says my old London driver came down! So she did - but the big reason she wanted to serve in this theater is that she is terribly in love with a young American Colonel and is to be married to him come June - assuming both are alive. I doubt that Life told that. But I tell you only so that if anyone is banal and foolish enough to lift an eyebrow at an old duffer such as I am in connection with WAACS - Red Cross workers - nurses & drivers - you will know that I've no emotional involvements and will have none. Ordinarily I don't try to think of all the details surrounding my existence when I write to you - they are all unimportant compared to the real things I like to talk to you about. And, by the way, my own driver is a Sergeant Drye!...I do hope you take the Florida trip, I'm sure you'd enjoy it...I just don't have the time to write long hard letters - you are the only person in the world to whom I send them...some day we can go over those letters together (if you're saving them) and that will be a lot of fun, because we'll say 'That's when we were big shots.' Then we'll chuckle! Darling...in case I haven't said it before in this letter, and you have any interest in the matter (you'd better!!!) - I love you - only...Always your Ike / P.S. I'm not astonished at the price for the robe - it is a beauty.'' Eisenhower allegedly fell in love with with his female driver, Kay Summersby, while serving in Europe during the war. 4pp. letter on ruled stationery measures 8'' x 10.5''. Near fine.
Dwight Eisenhower WWII Letter to His Wife Denying Affair -- ''...So Life [Magazine] says my old London driver came down! So she did...I doubt that Life told that...I've no emotional involvements...''
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