TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC JANUARY 7, 1919 P. 3
Nove. 25, 1918.
Dear Homefolks:
Guess you will be anxious to hear from me before you get this as I have been in France over two weeks and haven’t written. I just haven’t had any chance to get paper and write until tonight.
Hope you haven’t been uneasy about me. I am well and haven’t been sick at all except a little bad cold, and not much of that. Didn’t even get seasick coming across. I find that I am pretty will constituted and able to stand hardships that go with army life.
I am now at Mahicorne, a nice little town, and have a good warm place to stay right in the main part of town. I stay in the upstairs of one of these French stone buildings.
Am at the Y.M.C.A. now and have been around the piano singing some – first singing I have done in some time.
We don’t stay at one place but a few days at a time and will not be here long. Am drilling.
Guess you got the blank for sending Christmas package. I sent it just because they gave it to me at New York, and not that I expect you to send it.
Don’t know when I will get back but am hoping to be there to make a crop next year. None of us know anything about when we will go back.
Will try to write you again soon.
SMEAD.
NOTES: Smead Maloch is writing to relatives in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He graduated from Pine Bluff High School in 1913.
TRANSCRIBED BY AMY MINGER