TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT NOVEMBER 2, 1918 P. 2
Dear Mama:
Was sure glad to get your letter today. I am getting along fine and have not been sick any. How is papa getting along? Tell him I will see everything over here for him, and when I get home I will have lots to tell him. I am going to bring him a pair of wooden shoes. They all wear them here. I am sending a paper that is printed over here. It comes out every Friday. I am sending it home for six months. It is the “Stars and Stripes.”
When you write tell me all the news at home. Tell Newt to write and you must write to me every week. I am getting plenty to eat over here. I see Owen every day or so. We are getting some good war news over here, but I don’t know what it will amount to. I am still with Lieut. Hirsch and he is just fine. He said tell Pop that he was going to write him. I see Lieut. Sprigg every once in a while.
I am sending you a Christmas coupon so that you can send me something. I don’t want you to buy anything for me—just send me some Newport papers and some St. Louis papers and candy that you can make and a magazine or two. I get all the tobacco I want. Would like to have some of your good candy.
I am getting along fine and getting fat in this country. I am getting all the grapes I can eat and they are fine.
Love and best wishes to all.
From your son,
“Cull.”
Mach. Culver C. Knowles,
NOTES: This letter is written his mother, Mrs. M. Knowles.
TRANSCRIBED BY PAYTON DHOOGE
Dear Mama:
Was sure glad to get your letter today. I am getting along fine and have not been sick any. How is papa getting along? Tell him I will see everything over here for him, and when I get home I will have lots to tell him. I am going to bring him a pair of wooden shoes. They all wear them here. I am sending a paper that is printed over here. It comes out every Friday. I am sending it home for six months. It is the “Stars and Stripes.”
When you write tell me all the news at home. Tell Newt to write and you must write to me every week. I am getting plenty to eat over here. I see Owen every day or so. We are getting some good war news over here, but I don’t know what it will amount to. I am still with Lieut. Hirsch and he is just fine. He said tell Pop that he was going to write him. I see Lieut. Sprigg every once in a while.
I am sending you a Christmas coupon so that you can send me something. I don’t want you to buy anything for me—just send me some Newport papers and some St. Louis papers and candy that you can make and a magazine or two. I get all the tobacco I want. Would like to have some of your good candy.
I am getting along fine and getting fat in this country. I am getting all the grapes I can eat and they are fine.
Love and best wishes to all.
From your son,
“Cull.”
Mach. Culver C. Knowles,
NOTES: This letter is written his mother, Mrs. M. Knowles.
TRANSCRIBED BY PAYTON DHOOGE