Wed. eve.Dear Bette:
I hear that you didn't get started for college as early as you had expected to. I surely hope that you arrived in time so that you would not have to take any of those hard exams or pay a fine. I am so glad that you called me up. If I only had known that you didn't go Tuesday afternoon I would have come up to your house to see you (at least for a little while.) I hope you will forgive me for not calling up but as I told you I didn't want to bother your mother and father because you would have been very busy. I am so happy that you called up though.
Tonight my mother is having a bridge party of six tables. They are downstairs playing now. Your mother and father are here. Eleanor offered to come up and help my mother with the sandwiches etc, and her mother asked my mother if I would go down and walk up with her from church tonight and so I had to go down to the Masonic Hall at nine o'clock and meet her, and walk up to my house with her. She and Stanley are downstairs now as I am writing this letter. How I wish you were here now. It is a perfect night out tonight and if you were home it would be a swell night for you and I to go walking. It is about time we had some good weather and I only hope tomorrow is as good as today was. The time will pass quickly from now until June and the quicker it passes the better I'll like it. Ten weeks is a long time to wait to see you but I could wait forever to see you again.
We started track practice today and I ran about a mile and three quarters. We are going out again Friday afternoon. The course I ran was from the High school up Prospect to Forest up Forest to Migeon Ave, down Migeon to Church St. and down Church St. to the High School. I think the date for the Naugatuck meet has been set for May 13, here in Torrington and we will do our best to beat them. Only one boy followed the course I took today and all the rest took a much shorter route back to the High School. If the weather is fine we hope to go down to the park next week, for track practice.
I hope you will write me a nice long letter as soon as you can find time and if I have said anything I should not have said I hope you will forgive me.
Most sincerly [sic],
TommyP.S. I hope you didn't have a flat tire Tues. morning - Tommy