If this war keep up long enough--and it isn't going to end soon--people who have had no sight of it will go crazy, too--the continuous thought of it, the inability to get away from it by any device whatever--all this tells on us all.

Letters, then, plenty of them--let 'em come.
You are in a peaceful land.

The war is a long, long way off.

You suffer nothing worse than a little idleness and a little poverty.
They are nothing.

I hope (and believe) that you get enough to eat.
Be content, then.