TRANSCRIBED FROM: THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC NOVEMBER 10, 1918 P.
Sept. 25, 1918, Somewhere in France,
Dear Parents, Brotehers and Sisters:
I will write you a few lines today to let you know that I am all o.k. This is the first time I have had a chance to write, as we sure did do some traveling and this foreign country is some pretty scenery to an Arkansas’s eye, for it is much different than in the U.S.A. but I am having a good time. Puts me in mind of the times we used to go hunting in good old Arkansas.
The best part of my trip across the pond was that I never got sick, and our company is all together so you see everything is all right with us.
I met some of the boys of old Co. 38 today.
It isn’t cold here now, just about like November there. We are under quarantine at present in a rest camp near a village, and I am writing, using the bottom of my mes kit for a table. I got some French money today. Cannot count it yet. I like some parts of France along the coast is some beautiful scenery.
I have not learned enough French yet to talk to the people, but I sure would like to talk to them, they seem so friendly and pleasant, and look so funny wearing wooden shoes (Men, women ad children all wear them. A little boy asked me a question and it took about fifteen minutes before I could make out what he wanted, but I will learn by Xmas and write you a French letter for a Xmas present for that will be about all that I will be allowed to send.
Well, I must close for this time. Tell sister, Ben and Fred that this letter will have to do for all, but I want all to write to me as I love to get a lot of letters.
Your loving son,
Arthur. A.W. Fricker,
Supply Co. 329, Q. M. C. Via New York.
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TRANSCRIBED BY ISAAC WOLTER
Sept. 25, 1918, Somewhere in France,
Dear Parents, Brotehers and Sisters:
I will write you a few lines today to let you know that I am all o.k. This is the first time I have had a chance to write, as we sure did do some traveling and this foreign country is some pretty scenery to an Arkansas’s eye, for it is much different than in the U.S.A. but I am having a good time. Puts me in mind of the times we used to go hunting in good old Arkansas.
The best part of my trip across the pond was that I never got sick, and our company is all together so you see everything is all right with us.
I met some of the boys of old Co. 38 today.
It isn’t cold here now, just about like November there. We are under quarantine at present in a rest camp near a village, and I am writing, using the bottom of my mes kit for a table. I got some French money today. Cannot count it yet. I like some parts of France along the coast is some beautiful scenery.
I have not learned enough French yet to talk to the people, but I sure would like to talk to them, they seem so friendly and pleasant, and look so funny wearing wooden shoes (Men, women ad children all wear them. A little boy asked me a question and it took about fifteen minutes before I could make out what he wanted, but I will learn by Xmas and write you a French letter for a Xmas present for that will be about all that I will be allowed to send.
Well, I must close for this time. Tell sister, Ben and Fred that this letter will have to do for all, but I want all to write to me as I love to get a lot of letters.
Your loving son,
Arthur. A.W. Fricker,
Supply Co. 329, Q. M. C. Via New York.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY ISAAC WOLTER