TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DEWITT ENTERPRISE OCTOBER 25, 1917 P.
September 13, 1917
Dear Mother, and Sister:
I read your letter this morning and sure was glad to hear from you both and to know that you were well. I feel fine at present and hope these few lines will find you the same.
Well, Mother, I cannot write anything about the war. I don’t think it will last much longer. I heard the big guns last night.
It is cool here now. It makes a fellow think about heavy under clothes. I think it will snow about the last of this month.
Well, mother, I cannot tell you anything; I am not allowed to say anything.
No, I am not cooking now. Yes, you can send me anything you want to I will tell what you can send me, if you want to; that is, a big fruit cake; you can also send some tobacco. You need not send paper or stamps. I can get that at the Y. M. C. A. Paper is free. I have lots of stamps.
Well I will close for this time.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
Your loving son,
MAURICE RENFRO.
First American Expeditionary Force,
Motor Truck Co. 103.
NOTES: This letter is written by Renfro to his mother, Mrs. W. H. Cummings. He had enlisted early in the war at Pottsboro, Texas.
TRANSCRIBED BY KRISTEN FRANDSON
September 13, 1917
Dear Mother, and Sister:
I read your letter this morning and sure was glad to hear from you both and to know that you were well. I feel fine at present and hope these few lines will find you the same.
Well, Mother, I cannot write anything about the war. I don’t think it will last much longer. I heard the big guns last night.
It is cool here now. It makes a fellow think about heavy under clothes. I think it will snow about the last of this month.
Well, mother, I cannot tell you anything; I am not allowed to say anything.
No, I am not cooking now. Yes, you can send me anything you want to I will tell what you can send me, if you want to; that is, a big fruit cake; you can also send some tobacco. You need not send paper or stamps. I can get that at the Y. M. C. A. Paper is free. I have lots of stamps.
Well I will close for this time.
Hoping to hear from you soon,
Your loving son,
MAURICE RENFRO.
First American Expeditionary Force,
Motor Truck Co. 103.
NOTES: This letter is written by Renfro to his mother, Mrs. W. H. Cummings. He had enlisted early in the war at Pottsboro, Texas.
TRANSCRIBED BY KRISTEN FRANDSON