[The letter has some bad water stains, and some of it is illegible. My guesses are in brackets.]Tues morn.
Hello my darling:
Please forgive me for not writing sooner. We have had trouble with our car and I have been waiting to see just what was [wrong] with it and I didn't know if it would be fixed for the 26th or not. The whole transmission is all ruined and we have got to have some new parts for the clutch. I don't know how it all went that way but it did. The thing that is worrying me is that [I don't] know if I will have it for the 26th and I won't be much good without a car. We are having it fixed at the New Britian [sic] Trade School. They are going to try and make the gears for the transmission because if they don't make them they will have to send to the factory for a new transmission and the transmission alone will cost sixty dollars and we would have to wait some time before we got it. I mean that its [going to] take a lot of time to send [...] factory and have them send [it back] and then they would have to put it in the car and at that rate I surely wouldn't have the car. But they are going to try and make some new gears and get the car done so I will [have it] for then. I'll let you know [what] is what as soon as I know [...] It seems that just when everything is going alright something has to happen to spoil everything.
As for going to Boston I'd like to go (that is I get the car and get up there for Fri.) and I am sure we could find something to do. I'll leave the decision up to you.
At this point I don't know what to do but I'll write you just as soon as I know just [what I am] going to do. I only hope [I] will have the car as I [...] so much on seeing you.
Much love (and then some)
Tom