A Union chaplain, March sends falsely cheerful letters to his wife and daughters, shielding them from the wartime horrors he witnesses.

He regarded this as his big break, and crowed vastly to his family in cheerful letters that made fun of the Pope.

He was already a very ill man, and this cheerful letter was among the last he ever wrote.

To Jean he wrote a cheerful good-by letter, more cheerful, we may believe, than he felt.

He sends her cheerful letters every day.

A few years ago her letters, usually cheerful, started filling with complaints about stiffening up, not being able to walk to the store.

It was the most cheerful letter I'd ever received and came completely out of the blue.

Whether it was or not, he was glad to read cheerful letters from Carter at long last.

She got no more cables, which comforted her a little; she wrote to her mother and father every day, long cheerful letters about the Australian scene.

A place where men snatched from those they cared for could write cheerful, loving letters with no word of their secret worries.