Translations:CP 02844/5/en

If it were not such a joy - as much as we are able to feel any at this time - to receive a letter like yours, and from someone about whom I have never stopped thinking for a single day with ever increasing tenderness, it is already such a relief to read those pages in which there is no mention of “the Boche”, “their Kultur”, “crying like a little child”, “little sister”, nor all the rest of it. In any case we can easily tolerate all those things the more we suffer when we think about the martyrdom of the soldiers and officers, so moved are we by their sacrifice.