Letters written by Beth Puckett to her husband Lewis Puckett who was serving in the US Navy in the Pacific Theatre. Topics include the arrival of photograph portraits of Lewis, an open forum for peace plans held in Sunday School, doctor's bills for scarlet fever and tonsillitis, daughter Sherry's first piano recital, son Stephen getting into poison ivy and learning to tie his own shoes, a heat wave in Greensboro, blowing a tire in the heat, and local gossip.