ddr-densho-211-3

July 16, 1942

Dear Mrs. Gates:-

My belated thanks for forwarding the box of plates and other contents.

Today marks our beginning of the third month here and though the air is thick with conflicting rumors of relocation, we do not know anything definite about it. I only hope that we will not be sent to Idaho or Montana & blister in the August sun. This uncertainty is like that which we went through before evacuation in Seattle and is hard on the [illegible]. It seems to be an established fact, however, that we will not be able to go to Tule Lake, Calif. & join the other Northwesterners already there.

May I bother you again? By a small parcel, I am sending the key to the cedar chest left in the attic. Will you please find and send me the pass book for the Sumitomo Bank assigned to "Shoyukai" under Mitsuji Morishita's name. As I remember, it is together with

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two account books and some printed matter like receipts, etc possibly tied together in one bundle. He thinks that the pass book is in the envelope compartment pasted to one of the book's cover. Though the matter is some odd twenty dollars, the money belongs to an organization and he is very anxious to claim that amount before the final liquidation of the bank. We had written to the bank about it but have been instructed to forward the pass book or forfeit our claims. As the date for filing closes Aug. 1st, will you please fw'd it for us as soon as possible. I trust the enclosed will cover the return postage.

We follow the news through the papers and the radio and fervently pray for the dawn [?] of peace. Ignorant as ever to what its [sic] all about, we inocents [sic] only hope that from all the sacrifice and suffering, there must be some fair and just retribution in the tomorrow we anxiously await.

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While I help [?] at the camp canteen, Mitsuji manages to shorten the day by checking the sub-warehouse adjoining the Area D kitchen. We haven't [?] as yet seen any signs of payment for our work. The younger boys who are assigned to the hard and dirty labor show signs of discouragement. The meager $8.00 pay will mean so much to them now.

Thank you.

Yours very sincerely,
Ishi Morishita