TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE AUGUST 16, 1918 P. 2
July 15 1918.
Dear Cousin:
I will try and write you a few lines after so long a time to let you know. I am well and enjoying life just fine, and hope you all will be the same when these few lines reaches your hands. I am some where in Southern France camping in a little town. We have good quarters to sleep in and the French people are very friendly to the boys of the U. S. A. But very few of them can speak our language and a very few of us can speak theirs. Everything is all together different over here than it is in America, but what I have seen of the country and people I like fine but some of the boys have the blues because they can’t talk as much as they would like and because these people can’t understand them. Well I made it just fine as I came across the pond. I never got one bit sea sick on the voyage while lots of the boys got so sick they thot they were going to die at times. I spent the 4th of July on the waters. We had a boxing match and preaching so you see we had some entertainments to pass the 4th away with. Say Mattie, you pass this letter on to Mary and Arch for I don’t know where they are so you send this to them if you please. Well I will close. Answer soon. From your loving cousin.
Pvt. Emery Clay Campbell,
Mod. Dept. 341. F. A American Ex. F. via New York.
NOTES: Campbell was a former Carrollton, Arkansas resident and was the son of Fate Campbell and grandson of Dan Gimblin and Joe Campbell.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
July 15 1918.
Dear Cousin:
I will try and write you a few lines after so long a time to let you know. I am well and enjoying life just fine, and hope you all will be the same when these few lines reaches your hands. I am some where in Southern France camping in a little town. We have good quarters to sleep in and the French people are very friendly to the boys of the U. S. A. But very few of them can speak our language and a very few of us can speak theirs. Everything is all together different over here than it is in America, but what I have seen of the country and people I like fine but some of the boys have the blues because they can’t talk as much as they would like and because these people can’t understand them. Well I made it just fine as I came across the pond. I never got one bit sea sick on the voyage while lots of the boys got so sick they thot they were going to die at times. I spent the 4th of July on the waters. We had a boxing match and preaching so you see we had some entertainments to pass the 4th away with. Say Mattie, you pass this letter on to Mary and Arch for I don’t know where they are so you send this to them if you please. Well I will close. Answer soon. From your loving cousin.
Pvt. Emery Clay Campbell,
Mod. Dept. 341. F. A American Ex. F. via New York.
NOTES: Campbell was a former Carrollton, Arkansas resident and was the son of Fate Campbell and grandson of Dan Gimblin and Joe Campbell.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY