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Chapman University Chapman University Digital Commons Albert W. Parsons First World War Correspondence Collection CAWL Archives: First World War 1-12-1918 1918-01-12, Albert to Laura Albert W. Parsons Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/aparsons_collection Recommended Citation Parsons, Albert W., "1918-01-12, Albert to Laura" (1918). Albert W. Parsons First World War Correspondence Collection. 2. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/aparsons_collection/2 This Letter is brought to you for free and open access by the CAWL Archives: First World War at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Albert W. Parsons First World War Correspondence Collection by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact laughtin@chapman.edu. 1918-01-12, Albert to Laura Keywords correspondence, postal service, January 1918, 1918, United States, United States Army, army, cavalry, censorship, women, women at home, personal stories, animals, trenches, gifts, gifts from home, aunt, nephew, budget, money, friendship, camaraderie, romance, humour, celebration, wages, pay, navy, clothing, poetry, reading, literature, automobiles, radio, employment, job, war work, assignment, medical services, medical personnel, ambulance, aviation, duty, food, barracks, France, language, home front, civilians, French, children, family, youth, love Identifier 2014.160.w.r_ Parsons _worldwarone_1918-01-12_002 This letter is available at Chapman University Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/aparsons_collection/2 Lauren Cruz 10.22.2015 [PARSONS COLLECTION #2] [Page 1 – Envelope] Pvt. A. W. Parsons.     Soldiers Mail.   K. Troop. 3rd U.S. Cav.    on Active Service [[Image: above text obscured by a military postmark stamp – waving flag with a 2 in stripes]]    Miss Laura Stanley              Otter Creek             Maine     U.S.A. [[Image: Purple square censor’s stamp]]  C/o Mr. Clayton Stanley.                  Lauren Cruz 10.22.2015 [Page 2 – Letter]   Jan. 12. 1918  Dear Laura;  Your letter rec’d O.K. was sure glad to  hear from you and to hear all the news.    That was some  dream you had, I don’t blame that horse for not jumping a trench because it would sure to some jump, he would have to jump wires, sand bags and then a                Lauren Cruz 10.22.2015 [Page 3 – Letter continued]  3 already sent anything to me, don’t do it, because it costs like the deuce  for Postage etc.  Just write me often and that will be jake with me.    Roscoe or “Rosy” we call him. is writing the  school teacher now. Oh. Boy. watch her face and tell me how she  looks whens [sic] she reads it.   2 big trench.    I will look Preston Gray up. but I doubt if I find him, as you  know there was or  is several different Reg. of Cavalry in Texas.    But I will hunt him up if I can.    Yes. I recieved [sic] Aunt Alices [sic] box O.K.  I wrote her a letter of thanks.    [[strikethrough]] No [?]no [[/strikethrough]]    Now if you haven’t                Lauren Cruz 10.22.2015 [Page 4 – Letter continued]  4 He is a swell little fellow. full of life and fun.   That must have been some party of Flora’s, I  have one every pay day.    Yes. I hear from Bill real often.  He is on board the U.S.S. Oklahoma. he has been a sailor a long time now.    Yes. I have plenty of socks etc. pretty well fixed in fact.                 Lauren Cruz 10.22.2015 [Page 5 – Letter continued]   That was some  verse that guy wrote and it was more truth than poetry.    I can imagine how Clat looked when that Hub broke.    I am glad it is  a good bunch of fellows and not a  bunch of roughnecks at the radio station.                   Lauren Cruz 10.22.2015 [Page 6 – Letter continued]  7 We have good food and comfortable quarters.    The people here use us nice.    I go into a French ladys [sic] house two or three nights a  week, and try to learn the French  language.    I will tell a  friend of mine by the name of  Harold Smith to write.  He is a  good fellow.   6 Norman McDonald probably is very busy in his work as an ambulance driver or else he probably had a  ride to a far away country on a set of wings.    I am working steady, every day, doing different things    I am due for a guard to-morrow.    Oh. we have it good over here.  There is not room for a kick.               Lauren Cruz 10.22.2015  [Page 7 – Letter continued]  8 Well Rosy was completed his letter.    I will do the same as my hands are old.     Give my love to Clayt. [&] the kids.  Yours with Love,   Al. 

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