![EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969). Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), as Commander in Chief, to Mamie Eisenhower, Allied Force Headquarters, [Tunisia], 29 June 1943. 2 pages, 4to, WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE SIGNED ("Dwight D. Eisenhower"), on censor's stamp.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/NYR/2007_NYR_01840_0137_000(020219).jpg?w=1)
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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969). Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), as Commander in Chief, to Mamie Eisenhower, Allied Force Headquarters, [Tunisia], 29 June 1943. 2 pages, 4to, WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE SIGNED ("Dwight D. Eisenhower"), on censor's stamp.
"DAY AFTER TOMORROW IS OUR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY"
Two days before his 27th wedding anniversary and just ten days before the Allied invasion of Sicily, Eisenhower sends warm wishes to Mamie and hints at his upcoming "travels." "Day after tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. I've wired to Washington to make sure you have a bunch of roses from me that day. I couldn't very well send 'Sheltering Palms,' although, here, there is almost every kind of palm. Twenty seven years is a long time on the calendar, but I can remember many details of our wedding day as well as if they had happened this morning. For instance: my difficulty in keeping my white trousers from wrinkling!! Yesterday I was away all day! It was a busy trip and I was thoroughly tired when I hit here last eve. I was supposed to go out again tomorrow but trip was postponed. Sometimes my journeys are for the day only, sometime for more than a week. I'll be starting a longer one soon." He comments about a Washington Post article his brother Milton sent him. "It was far more accurate, in describing the character of my work, than are most such stories. The only thing the writer did not seem to know is the extent to which I'm committed to travelling. I truly hope that, before Christmas, there'll be an opportunity for me to come home for a day or so. Well my love, please be sure I'll be thinking of you on July 1. I love you always--with all my heart."
Eisenhower, a four-star general as of February 1943, defeated the last German forces in North Africa in May, and was making final preparations for landings in Sicily on 10 June. He followed this up with the invasion of Italy in September. He would indeed be "committed to travelling" over the following weeks and months. His victories in the Mediterranean Theatre convinced Roosevelt and Churchill in December 1943 to make Ike supreme commander of all Allied forces for the invasion of Europe--Operation Overlord--in 1944.
"DAY AFTER TOMORROW IS OUR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY"
Two days before his 27th wedding anniversary and just ten days before the Allied invasion of Sicily, Eisenhower sends warm wishes to Mamie and hints at his upcoming "travels." "Day after tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. I've wired to Washington to make sure you have a bunch of roses from me that day. I couldn't very well send 'Sheltering Palms,' although, here, there is almost every kind of palm. Twenty seven years is a long time on the calendar, but I can remember many details of our wedding day as well as if they had happened this morning. For instance: my difficulty in keeping my white trousers from wrinkling!! Yesterday I was away all day! It was a busy trip and I was thoroughly tired when I hit here last eve. I was supposed to go out again tomorrow but trip was postponed. Sometimes my journeys are for the day only, sometime for more than a week. I'll be starting a longer one soon." He comments about a Washington Post article his brother Milton sent him. "It was far more accurate, in describing the character of my work, than are most such stories. The only thing the writer did not seem to know is the extent to which I'm committed to travelling. I truly hope that, before Christmas, there'll be an opportunity for me to come home for a day or so. Well my love, please be sure I'll be thinking of you on July 1. I love you always--with all my heart."
Eisenhower, a four-star general as of February 1943, defeated the last German forces in North Africa in May, and was making final preparations for landings in Sicily on 10 June. He followed this up with the invasion of Italy in September. He would indeed be "committed to travelling" over the following weeks and months. His victories in the Mediterranean Theatre convinced Roosevelt and Churchill in December 1943 to make Ike supreme commander of all Allied forces for the invasion of Europe--Operation Overlord--in 1944.