TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPECTATOR MARCH 7, 1919 P. 1
Camp Coetquidans, France,
Feb: 11, 1919
Dear Father and Mother and family:
I will take the greatest pleasure in answering your kind and appreciated letter just received. I sure was glad to hear from you all and to know that you were well. These few lines leaves me O.K., and I hope will find you all well and enjoying life.
Well, Mother, you said you liked your new home fine. I am glad you all are well satisfied over there. I guess that place is a much prettier place, and the best thing of all about it is that you have a good house.
Father, you said you had some good gags. They are good things to have about the place, I think, don’t you? You said you would be glad if I could get back in time to farm this year. I would have liked to have got back in time to farm, but I wont now. I may get back in time to put in a crop of cotton. There is plenty of time for that yet. If I can only make a cotton crop and save plenty of hay it will be that much. If I don’t get back in time to plant corn, I will put in a big crop of cotton, if I ever get back. I do not know when we will sail for the U.S.A., but I don’t think it will be long.
I will close: answer soon.
Your son,
A.H. Nordin,
Bat. C. 142 F.A., A.E.F.
NOTES: This letter was written by A. H. Nordin.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGART
Camp Coetquidans, France,
Feb: 11, 1919
Dear Father and Mother and family:
I will take the greatest pleasure in answering your kind and appreciated letter just received. I sure was glad to hear from you all and to know that you were well. These few lines leaves me O.K., and I hope will find you all well and enjoying life.
Well, Mother, you said you liked your new home fine. I am glad you all are well satisfied over there. I guess that place is a much prettier place, and the best thing of all about it is that you have a good house.
Father, you said you had some good gags. They are good things to have about the place, I think, don’t you? You said you would be glad if I could get back in time to farm this year. I would have liked to have got back in time to farm, but I wont now. I may get back in time to put in a crop of cotton. There is plenty of time for that yet. If I can only make a cotton crop and save plenty of hay it will be that much. If I don’t get back in time to plant corn, I will put in a big crop of cotton, if I ever get back. I do not know when we will sail for the U.S.A., but I don’t think it will be long.
I will close: answer soon.
Your son,
A.H. Nordin,
Bat. C. 142 F.A., A.E.F.
NOTES: This letter was written by A. H. Nordin.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGART