Letter to Mom July 3rd 1944

Towards the end of getting mom and dad's house ready for sale I found some additional letters from the time period of WWII starting before the August journal entries. Although I was unable to get them published here on the anniversary of when they were written, I want to get started with these to lead into the time of the Journal.

To: Mrs L. M. Winsor            Cpl. Luther S. Winsor
1202 Crystal Ave                    A.S.N. 39829849
Salt Lake City -5-                   A.P.O. 5384
Utah                                        c/o P.M. New York, N. Y.

                                               Somewhere in England
                                               July 3, 1944
Mom Dearest,
I hope Leona is giving you all the news about me cause of course I spend most of my writing time on her. Mail delivery from here isn't so hot in any form so don't be worried if there is any lapse in my letters.

I've always heard that England was beautiful but it's even better than I imagined. Mom if you've ever had the urge to do a little landscape painting of neatly laid out farms, with hedged borders, and rustic and old but well kept farm buildings and brick houses- This is the place to do it. Five of us were invited out to a lovely old English home and we really enjoyed the warm friendship and atmosphere of the people. Their collection of old oaken furniture (still serviceable as new, copper and brass work and fine china is something I've never before seen. One table is 250 yrs old and that's average.
I love the cool weather here in spite of the frequent showers and if I can just get some mail saying that you are all well and maybe a cable saying that I'm a proud daddy and that Leona is well-I'll be happy-Love Lu