TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS APRIL 18. 1919 P. 4
Dear Aunt and Uncle:
Received your letter some few days ago, was more than glad to hear from you, and learn you were well.
We are having some spring weather now, the sun shined pretty today and it was warm. It has been awful rainy all winter up here. I have been here a little over a month doing M.P. duty, it isn’t bad in pretty weather we are only on duty 6 hours out of 24, the rest of the time we can go where we please or sleep if we want to and that is what I do the most of the time.
There are plenty of pretty girls but they don’t bother me. Some of the boys go crazy over them. I wouldn’t give my little girls little finger for all the French girls and what they have. Some of the French are very nice people but they are scarce. Give me a good American for mine. This was a great trip for me to get to see this country and isn’t costing me a cent. I am glad I got to come even if I didn’t get to see the front lines. And I am sure proud that I never seen the front. I have already seen all of France that I want to see except I would like to spend a few days in Paris and I think I will before I go home. I can get an 8 day furlough to Paris and that is as long as I care about staying anyway. We had a review by General Pershing and his staff. He thanked us very much for the work the A.E.F. had done. Also said we would go home as quick as possible, only we would have to take our turn as it comes, of course we will. I don’t look to get home before fall if then. We M.P.s are stuck for awhile I think. We have plenty of amusement here at the Y.M.C.A. We can buy candy and chewing gum and all the tobacco we want. They issue us tobacco and sometimes candy. How is granny making it? I’ll bet she is spry as a young chicken. I sure would like to see her.
NOTES: Clint Richard Guthrie was writing to his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Nichols. This partial letter was written in March. He was born on December 28, 1891 in West Fork, Arkansas and died on August 10, 1960 in Los Angeles, Calif. He is buried in the Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton, Cal. He departed for France from Brooklyn, NY on August 24, 1918 onboard the Pyrrhus. He was serving as a Private in Co. B, 312 Military Police. He returned to the US departing from Brest, France on June 11, 1919 onboard the Plattsburg. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on July 20, 1919. He was a private serving in Co. B, 2nd GHQ M.P. Bn.
TRANSCRIBED BY DAVID COLLINS
Dear Aunt and Uncle:
Received your letter some few days ago, was more than glad to hear from you, and learn you were well.
We are having some spring weather now, the sun shined pretty today and it was warm. It has been awful rainy all winter up here. I have been here a little over a month doing M.P. duty, it isn’t bad in pretty weather we are only on duty 6 hours out of 24, the rest of the time we can go where we please or sleep if we want to and that is what I do the most of the time.
There are plenty of pretty girls but they don’t bother me. Some of the boys go crazy over them. I wouldn’t give my little girls little finger for all the French girls and what they have. Some of the French are very nice people but they are scarce. Give me a good American for mine. This was a great trip for me to get to see this country and isn’t costing me a cent. I am glad I got to come even if I didn’t get to see the front lines. And I am sure proud that I never seen the front. I have already seen all of France that I want to see except I would like to spend a few days in Paris and I think I will before I go home. I can get an 8 day furlough to Paris and that is as long as I care about staying anyway. We had a review by General Pershing and his staff. He thanked us very much for the work the A.E.F. had done. Also said we would go home as quick as possible, only we would have to take our turn as it comes, of course we will. I don’t look to get home before fall if then. We M.P.s are stuck for awhile I think. We have plenty of amusement here at the Y.M.C.A. We can buy candy and chewing gum and all the tobacco we want. They issue us tobacco and sometimes candy. How is granny making it? I’ll bet she is spry as a young chicken. I sure would like to see her.
NOTES: Clint Richard Guthrie was writing to his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Nichols. This partial letter was written in March. He was born on December 28, 1891 in West Fork, Arkansas and died on August 10, 1960 in Los Angeles, Calif. He is buried in the Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton, Cal. He departed for France from Brooklyn, NY on August 24, 1918 onboard the Pyrrhus. He was serving as a Private in Co. B, 312 Military Police. He returned to the US departing from Brest, France on June 11, 1919 onboard the Plattsburg. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on July 20, 1919. He was a private serving in Co. B, 2nd GHQ M.P. Bn.
TRANSCRIBED BY DAVID COLLINS