TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HELENA WORLD JANUARY 7, 1919 P. 5
My Dear Father:
This letter leaves me as well as I ever was in my life. As I have not received a single letter from home since I have been over here, I don’t know how things are getting along in Helena, but I hope that you are all well and happy. I am now head barber of my company, and to tell you the truth I have very little to do and we have a swell house to live in at that. We don’t know when we will return home, but I don’t think it will be very long. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting a single man from Helena so far and the fact that I have had no news from home since I came across makes me feel like home. I know that you are writing to me, but it seems that somebody is not attending to his business right or something. We are located in a small French village but where there is plenty of red wine here to be found and you ought to be here if you like to have a drink now and then.
Well, I have nothing to say that would interest you with the exception that I am just dying to hear from home. Give my regard to all my friends.
Your son,
JOE PAPA
Co. K. 163 Inf.
A.E.F., France
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND
My Dear Father:
This letter leaves me as well as I ever was in my life. As I have not received a single letter from home since I have been over here, I don’t know how things are getting along in Helena, but I hope that you are all well and happy. I am now head barber of my company, and to tell you the truth I have very little to do and we have a swell house to live in at that. We don’t know when we will return home, but I don’t think it will be very long. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting a single man from Helena so far and the fact that I have had no news from home since I came across makes me feel like home. I know that you are writing to me, but it seems that somebody is not attending to his business right or something. We are located in a small French village but where there is plenty of red wine here to be found and you ought to be here if you like to have a drink now and then.
Well, I have nothing to say that would interest you with the exception that I am just dying to hear from home. Give my regard to all my friends.
Your son,
JOE PAPA
Co. K. 163 Inf.
A.E.F., France
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND