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Dvr H.Adler
PAL/30765
650, G.T.Coy R.A.S.C
“B” Platoon
C.M.F

16 July 1945

Ma bonne chérie,

I reflected for a good while before beginning this letter, wondering what I could say to you. But my reflections didn’t help and I still don’t know what to say. It’s about your silence, darling. The last letter I received from you was dated the 9 June. A short letter in English… since then nothing. Not a line, not a word. Your silence has lasted a month and a half. Yvette, I am no longer just nervous or anxious. I am only sad. Sadder than I have ever been. It’s something quite new for me. I have never in all my life felt such sadness… Yvette my love, you are silent, without doubt there are reasons. And very powerful reasons. So powerful that even you cannot express them. I feel badly for you, more than for myself. I know well that your look would express the profoundness of your silence. But I am so far away and I cannot see your look. What a terrible distance.

I make you party to my thoughts, trying to understand and explain what I don’t know. They are so numerous and diverse. And without real value; reflections of this nervous time. Now I can think no more because I realise it is useless. Now I can only listen to my sadness. It is terrible, darling. It is cruel. I know it’s not your fault. You are good, I know that. I know it so well, even through my sadness. But I am sick for you.

Your,

Henry