"Everything
is growing better here and we perceive each day that the whole of the world is
prepared to help us. Food rations have
increased from 400 to 2300 calories a week.
I am quite an American now for I wear shirts and shoes handed out by the
American Army. When I had to dive I lost
namely nearly all my clothes. Only cigarettes
are still very scarce here and as you will know a Dutchman is no real Dutchman
without a cigaret. We get only 20 a
week. Some people get cigarettes from
relations abroad. Therefore I would ask
you to do me the pleasure to see if you can send me some cigarettes, say 300 to
400. I will repay them to you, of course, as soon as I know what I owe
you."
--
Letter from Jacobus Lieshout, Hoorn, Netherlands, to my father, Boulder,
Colorado, October 10, 1945. Jacobus was my father's penpal during high school.
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