TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT NOVEMBER 7, 1918 P. 2
Dear Sister Mabel:
Your letters reached me yesterday, of course I was delighted to hear from you. Since I wrote you last I have changed locations, am now about __ miles from my company on ___ duty. I went back to my company last evening and spent the night there. Was with John this morning. He is getting along fine. I certainly enjoyed your letters, Mabel; they were so good and newsy. John and I exchanged letters, so we both got the benefit of your writing.
I believe peace is near. The way the Sammies are going and will continue to go sure will bring victory within fewer days than you imagine.
I thought for a time I would never hear from you all, and you may imagine how I felt. I sure would like to get the Independent, and wish you would send me one. We see the New York Herald every day. It is published over here every day. I see a good deal of news from the states, but nothing about anybody I know. I wish you would send me some new pictures. But I don’t know but that I would be ready to start home before they reached me. John and I are well and expect to see you soon.
Love and best wishes to all,
Sergt, Edgar Coe,
Classification Camp
Fifth Depot Divison, A. P. O. 904
NOTES: Coe is writing to his sister, Mrs. W. K. (Mabel) Coe.
TRANSCRIBED BY CHLOE SMITH
Dear Sister Mabel:
Your letters reached me yesterday, of course I was delighted to hear from you. Since I wrote you last I have changed locations, am now about __ miles from my company on ___ duty. I went back to my company last evening and spent the night there. Was with John this morning. He is getting along fine. I certainly enjoyed your letters, Mabel; they were so good and newsy. John and I exchanged letters, so we both got the benefit of your writing.
I believe peace is near. The way the Sammies are going and will continue to go sure will bring victory within fewer days than you imagine.
I thought for a time I would never hear from you all, and you may imagine how I felt. I sure would like to get the Independent, and wish you would send me one. We see the New York Herald every day. It is published over here every day. I see a good deal of news from the states, but nothing about anybody I know. I wish you would send me some new pictures. But I don’t know but that I would be ready to start home before they reached me. John and I are well and expect to see you soon.
Love and best wishes to all,
Sergt, Edgar Coe,
Classification Camp
Fifth Depot Divison, A. P. O. 904
NOTES: Coe is writing to his sister, Mrs. W. K. (Mabel) Coe.
TRANSCRIBED BY CHLOE SMITH