October 28, 1944
-Holland-
Dear Bernice:
I received your letter dated Oct. 16 today and it was most welcome. The financial statement interested me. I am very glad we are still solvent. It is getting quite cold here now. Today, the sun came out and it was beautiful but quite cold. The mud is terrific. It’s a good thing we have jeeps for they will go most any place. You should see my “short snorter.” It is a string of bills strung together end to end and we got all our friends to sign them. The one that is the most valuable is a five hundred Franc note worth $10.00. I have a bill on there for one hundred million Marks but it has no value. There are twenty-nine bills in all and it is about ten feet long. There is money from the U.S.A. (a $2.00 bill), England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. The hundred million Mark bill is pre-war German inflation money. I have a collection of the most beautiful German and Austrian Bank notes, all inflationary, you have ever seen. I am going to send it home for you to keep for me. I have also many more interesting old coins. I will send them along also. They are to add to those I sent to you from England. We are not allowed to collect many things. In the first place there is no place to keep the things nor is there very much to collect. All of the shops are cleaned out and in a lot of cases destroyed.