TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COUNTY EAGLE SEPTEMBER 5, 1918 P. 1
Dear Mother:
I will try to answer your letter received three or four days ago. I am well and having a good time, considering the place we are in, a little town with not many people. But what few are here seem to appreciate the U.S.A. soldiers and they treat us fine. I had a very good trip across the water, the ocean was calm all the time, except about one day and that was the days I got sick, but it didn’t last as long as I thought would. Steve was sick several days, and was in the hospital three days. Some of the boys who came over here said the French girls were better looking than our American girls, but I think they are a bad judge of beauty, while at the same time the French girls are very good looking. I know you would be tickled to hear me trying to speak French. I can’t say but a few words, but I hope to learn well enough get by. Tell everybody to write me and tell me all the news. I have not forgotten any of them yet.
Your son,
David
NOTES: This partial letter is written from France by David Dooley to his mother, Mrs. Dora Dooley of Parkdale, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY: ISAAC WOLTER
Dear Mother:
I will try to answer your letter received three or four days ago. I am well and having a good time, considering the place we are in, a little town with not many people. But what few are here seem to appreciate the U.S.A. soldiers and they treat us fine. I had a very good trip across the water, the ocean was calm all the time, except about one day and that was the days I got sick, but it didn’t last as long as I thought would. Steve was sick several days, and was in the hospital three days. Some of the boys who came over here said the French girls were better looking than our American girls, but I think they are a bad judge of beauty, while at the same time the French girls are very good looking. I know you would be tickled to hear me trying to speak French. I can’t say but a few words, but I hope to learn well enough get by. Tell everybody to write me and tell me all the news. I have not forgotten any of them yet.
Your son,
David
NOTES: This partial letter is written from France by David Dooley to his mother, Mrs. Dora Dooley of Parkdale, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY: ISAAC WOLTER