TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC OCTOBER 12, 1918 P. 1
Dearest Cleve and Winnie:
If anybody tells you to take a trip to beautiful France, you take one to the eastern part of the States instead. Things here have not changed any in the past century and the people aren’t the energeitc kind of people I thought they were.
I have seen but little of the country, and may like it better when I have visited Paris. But I can’t like the idea that this race has of making no distinction at all between the negroes and the white people.
Everybody here seems to think the war can’t last much longer, but I don’t think the truck trains can possibly get away from here in less than a year after peace is declared.
We were all looking forward to the meeting of the pretty French maidens when we landed ashore, but didn’t see any and I have been to town everyday nearly since we landed here, but haven’t seen any of them that looked anything lige American women to me.
Do you all wear large horns on you shoes---its stylish here.
NOTES: This partial letter is written from France by Sgt. L. C. Pilkington, C. C., 114 Supply Train. He is writing to his brother and sister-in-law.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Dearest Cleve and Winnie:
If anybody tells you to take a trip to beautiful France, you take one to the eastern part of the States instead. Things here have not changed any in the past century and the people aren’t the energeitc kind of people I thought they were.
I have seen but little of the country, and may like it better when I have visited Paris. But I can’t like the idea that this race has of making no distinction at all between the negroes and the white people.
Everybody here seems to think the war can’t last much longer, but I don’t think the truck trains can possibly get away from here in less than a year after peace is declared.
We were all looking forward to the meeting of the pretty French maidens when we landed ashore, but didn’t see any and I have been to town everyday nearly since we landed here, but haven’t seen any of them that looked anything lige American women to me.
Do you all wear large horns on you shoes---its stylish here.
NOTES: This partial letter is written from France by Sgt. L. C. Pilkington, C. C., 114 Supply Train. He is writing to his brother and sister-in-law.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON