Letters written by Beth Puckett to her husband Lewis Puckett who was serving in the US Navy in the Pacific Theatre. The letters include several expressions of affection, loneliness, and longing. Other topics include the inconsistency of mail delivery, care packages, Lewis' gifts (including shell necklaces and grass skirts), improving her cooking, considering taking a job, sending valentines, traveling arrangements and experiences, plumbing issues, having to cut a permanent out of her hair, updates on acquaintances having babies, an annoying boarder's birthday, the misery of having a bad cold, stupid acquaintances, songs playing on the radio as she wrote, the morality of women whose husbands were abroad, immunization shots, a baby abandoned at the railroad station, going to a ballet and opera performance, housework, weighing the children, going to the movies, and updates on friends and family.