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

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…

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…

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.

Danny thanks his wife for the salami that she sent. He made the colonel a sandwich. He is happy to have become an uncle, since Bambina had a baby boy. However, he is blue that he may not be present when his own child is born, although he really does…

Danny discloses that he did not get the mess sargent position and that he will be shipping out the following week. He asks her to please consider quitting her factory job due to the heat and her advanced pregnancy. He thanks her for the tomatoes that…

Loves to be a mess sargent because he "always wanted to" "since I've been first cook and run the kitchen my own way because I know how most cooks want a kitchen to run". Don't smoke too many (cigarettes?) because they are not good for you. Met a baby…

He is a cook. He got a purse as a gift for her. He will send money back home as soon as he gets paid. He was not too a religious man, but the distance from home makes him willing to go to church. (italian food/ libro Dante Alighiero p. 13)

"Ravioli and chicken ever sound good".. "made spaghetti yesterday"... "I beg your pardon but whooooo did you say was going to do the cooking? ?? I've got an idea that a certain little darling wife of mine is going to do the cooking. Don't you?"...…

Danny's sugar report thanks Leona for having his mom send underwear although he really needs undershirts. There is discussion of Jean's baby and about a dream that Leona had about Roger Di Paolo's safety. He asks his wife if she will be returning to…