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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, November-December 1942

1942-11-03 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

Tonight Mrs McGiverin is helping do the work again. I hire her a few hours every week and it certainly is a help. I don't have to be a drudge all the time or else be surrounded with unfinished jobs all the time. She irons and cleans the house up good for me. Sometimes I work with her and again I go out and leave her. Maybe it is lazy of me but as long as I work and you are not here to help with any of the jobs it is the easier way for me. I still have enough to keep me busy. I don't slave, but I always have so many jobs I'd like to do anyway. Like the dresser and cupboard drawers and summer clothes and so on. If and when I get them done, that is good. Today I was told the budget committee of Red Cross voted my salary at $135 with the time for me to come to be whenever I could. It is understood I am to work for them if I don't get to

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Tonight Mrs McGiverin is helping do the work again. I hire her a few hours every week and it certainly is a help. I don't have to be a drudge all the time or else be surrounded with unfinished jobs all the time. She irons and cleans the house up good for me. Sometimes I work with her and again I go out and leave her. Maybe it is lazy of me but as long as I work and you are not here to help with any of the jobs it is the easier way for me. I still have enough to keep me busy. I don't slave, but I always have so many jobs I'd like to do anyway. Like the dresser and cupboard drawers and summer clothes and so on. If and when I get them done, that is good. Today I was told the budget committee of Red Cross voted my salary at $135 with the time for me to come to be whenever I could. It is understood I am to work for them if I don't get to