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Sept 15 1943

Dear Hedda, 

I changed my mind and I moved again by plane. I'm now in a good, populated place and have plenty of cigarettes and everything.  I think I'll stay here quite for some time.  I didn't have any radio news for almost a month and now I heard the most amazing and real good news like [surrender] capitulation of Italy, Russian campaign and so on.  I was waiting for this kind of news for 3-4 years and, just when something happened at last, I was in the wilderness far from newspapers and headlines.  You know how much I like newspapers.  We don't have here any newspaper only a bulletin typewriter and I was busy the whole day reading the old news.  

I had from you only one letter all this time and in this letter instead of writing about you - which is what I'm interesting in - you wrote about me.  You still have a good opinion about