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In Italian but a strong influence of dialect (and some influence of English in the spelling) -- probably the mother does not speak English. Along with inviting her parents to visit her, she asks her mother to mail her salami and jarred mushrooms.

He thanks her for the package with a "capocollo" (traditional Italian salami). Some of his buddies are of Italian descent but they have never heard about capocollo! He talks about girls over there. He is asking her to write to a lonely fellow who saw…

Name: Edmondo Catania Place and Date of Birth: South Philadelphia, PA, 09/23/1944 Generation: 2 Family Origin: Paternal = Naso, Sicily, Italy Maternal = Capo d’Orlando, Sicily, Italy Spoken Languages: English Proficient in Italian…

Fray writes to request that Leona ship the waffle iron (pizzelle iron) to her since her mother is staying with her in Detroit.

Leona's letter recounts social happenings: war inspired wedding for Jan, seeing Grace at her sister's, Bill being in Florida, shopping with her mom, etc. And, there is a lot of talk about food: Leona was going to make "nokis" for dinner; she bought a…

Leona is fine but feels lonely without Danny. Ravioli and chicken for supper, but she did not eat watermelon because she was full. Frances went to Bellaire because her sister's one-year old baby died of the measles. Leona is getting fat, and Danny…

Leona recognizes that Danny has been a soldier for a year and she hopes he will soon be in civilian clothing. She is outgrowing her regular clothes, eating ice cream 4 days in a row.

Leona questions at length about the cookies that her mom made and she sent to Danny. She knows he is not fond of them, but they were filler in the package and she wants to know in what condition they reached him in case she has to ship them overseas.…

Letter taking long. He lost his day of rest. "It would be wonderful when someday we can send the Army to hell, but right now we just have to sit back and take what they dish out... you are one who can take it. Food spolied. Mass and confession, no…

Leona recounts for Danny about her dad watching the baby so that she could go out shopping looking for pepperoni in the Italian markets to add to her care package to Danny. The Italian grocers were out of it until the following week. She jokes about…