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				<title>Zeller correspondence</title>
				<author>John Zeller</author>
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					<persName>Susan Falciani Maldonado</persName>
					<resp>University Archivist and Director of Special Collections</resp>
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					<persName>Diane Jakacki</persName>
					<resp>Digital Scholarship Coordinator</resp>
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				<distributor>Special Collections/University Archives, Bertrand Library</distributor>
				<authority>Bucknell University</authority>
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					<addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine>
					<addrLine>Pennsylvania</addrLine>
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				John F. Zeller Papers
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					<dateline>Feb 28, 1943</dateline>
					<salute>Dear Grandma, Aunt Stella, + Uncle Elmer --</salute>
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				 Only 18 more days and I'll be leading home. This week I received confirmation of
					my reservation with American Airlines out of Okla. City. I'll leave Okla City at
					6:45 and arrive in Pittsburg at 4:14 Fridary morning at 4:14. So I shall be in
					Lewisburg by noon. 
				 I went on a uniform spree again this weekend and spent what was left of my pay
					before I knew what was going on. These things are so expensive -- and yet we
					have to have them. I paid $10 for a bag full of brass -- bars and insignia and
					$20 for just a few little items of clothing. When shirts cost $12.75 it doesn't
					take long to go broke. 
				 I hope you'll pardon my classy stationery. the PX didn't have much but this --
					so I had to take it. 
				 There is no more news as to where I'll be sent from here. I'm sort of afraid
					I'll be coming back here. It will be all right -- as far as that goes -- but if
					I come back here I won't get any additional travel time beyond the 10 days --
					and I won't get any travel money. 
				 I'm looking forward a great deal to those days at home. I am going to sleep late
					every morning and go to the movies when I want to without standing in line. But
					I'm afraid I'll feel like an outsider to sit down to a dinner table again.
					Mother will have to invite the neighborhood in and have us all stand in line
					with tin trays to be served cafeteria style. Other wise I won't be "at home." 
				 I was hut orderly this week again and managed to get through without any more
					demerits. If I can just get past the coming week, now, the chances are good that
					I may end up with a total of only 4. 
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					<salute>Love,</salute>
					<signed>John</signed>
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February 28, 1943 (a)