Smith, Ansel Brooks, Sr.

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CUATION HOSPITAL"2 USA COBLENZ, GERMANY8 January 1919. My Dearest Girl:-I am justsbeginning whatlooks as if 1 t were going to be a veryhard days work. I have been on the run every minute since I got up this A.M. at 6: 30 and it is now eleven o' Clock and I have a few minutes in which I can write to you. s me one has run off with my ink, so I am using themachineand unless they bring it back before I finish I will evenhave tt sign this letter with a pencil. I am going out to dinner tonight with Lt.Foshee, the young fellow fromButterworth that I wrote to you about the other day. is located somewhat nearer to me than he was when I first me him, and it is a matterof only a few minutes to reach his headquarters now. They have a nice . club there and I will enjoy going there to see him.He ha s had a letter from Dr VanDen Brg of Grand Rapids in whichhe defended himself for not taking a commiss ion in the army on the grounds that he had to stay there and take care of his business. If evry Doctor in the USA had had the same idea, this would have been a fine army of ours, and we wouldbe fighting the Germans yet.I have little sympathy with such a man, and in spite of the fac t that be has been of use to you since I have been away, I think he is a slacker with a capital for not getting in the service. It will be a great source of enjoyment to me to tell some of those fellows what I think of them some day too. DON'Tt think FORone minute that I won't do it. Nothing will please me more..I have had two more letters from Jac k, and they are all letters that have been written for a long time. The mail service has been rotten over here and the only thing that I have felt justified in complaining about, but of course complaintsdo no good. I think that I am rid of my fleas. I havn'tt had a bite for two or three days now, and it is all do to the cake of soap that you sent to me a long time ago, and whichI have never used until now I can as sure you that I an glad to have i t if 1 t wi11 rid me of the 11 ttle pests.for I have never i tched as much in all my life as I have in the past week. you have no idea what the word itoh tchmeans Dear, a nd I never wa t to hear you complain ab out your hives itching again. you rarely have them now anywaydo you? I shall expect to find you so healthy when I return, that I will hardly know you, and you must be careful untill I get back so that you will be in good health when I come. The Commanding Officer has an idea that it won't be long now untillthis outfit t is relieved f'rom duty here and sent home. I have no idea where he gets his dope, but that he has some from some source I do know, and I hope that I it is more or less authentic. I mean by a short time, that it will be a matter of a month or two more. That won't be bad at all, and I hope that we do get to leave that soon, howev ever I am not going to get at all excited about it and I do not want you to either. well Dear I must close for todayI will write again tomorrow, a:nd will try to have rrry ink then. r love you Dearest. With all my love to the dear babies, Glad, and you dear, and a million kisses to all, I am your lovingand lo nesome and homesiek, MCEVACUCATIOnHospital "2 USA 

Ansel Brooks Smith-Mrs. Marie Smith, January 8, 1919, Germany

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Ansel Brooks Smith-Mrs. Marie Smith, January 8, 1919, Germany

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