TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS JUNE 12, 1918 P. 8
France May 18, 1918
Misses Iri and Willie Buckley:
My dear cousins,
I will try to answer your kind letter received last night. I sure was glad to hear from you. This leaves me well and hope it will find you the same.
Well, girls, I am going to have to make this a short letter as it is nearly dark and we will have to go to work soon. When a man gets out of this army he will have to get somebody with a good gun to stand by his bed and make a little noise so he can go to sleep. The earth just trembles over here nearly all the time.
You wanted me to tell you some things about Paris. Well, I have never been there yet but have been most everywhere else, and I have not seen a store over here yet that was as good as a 10 cent store in the States. I have been over here one year and I have not seen but one frame building. It is all block and brick and mud. I would not live over here in France if they would make me a deed to the whole country. I will close for this time, hoping to hear from you soon. Love to all.
Your cousin,
Percy Gribb
NOTES: Gribb wrote this letter to Iri and Willie Buckley of Mayfiedl, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY DAVID COLLINS
France May 18, 1918
Misses Iri and Willie Buckley:
My dear cousins,
I will try to answer your kind letter received last night. I sure was glad to hear from you. This leaves me well and hope it will find you the same.
Well, girls, I am going to have to make this a short letter as it is nearly dark and we will have to go to work soon. When a man gets out of this army he will have to get somebody with a good gun to stand by his bed and make a little noise so he can go to sleep. The earth just trembles over here nearly all the time.
You wanted me to tell you some things about Paris. Well, I have never been there yet but have been most everywhere else, and I have not seen a store over here yet that was as good as a 10 cent store in the States. I have been over here one year and I have not seen but one frame building. It is all block and brick and mud. I would not live over here in France if they would make me a deed to the whole country. I will close for this time, hoping to hear from you soon. Love to all.
Your cousin,
Percy Gribb
NOTES: Gribb wrote this letter to Iri and Willie Buckley of Mayfiedl, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY DAVID COLLINS