TRANSCRIBED FROM NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT OCTOBER 24, 1918 P. 2
Well, I would enjoy being at home now, just to see all the cotton coming in. Gee, I wonder what cotton will b eworth before the season is over.
Dee, there isn’t much that we can write about over here. We don’t know any war news, and I wouldn’t care to write about it if I did. We are billeted in a dry place in a very pretty section of France; at least they say it’s pretty; I’ve never been out to see.
I will miss my Christmas dinner for the first time in my life, but I hope I won’t have to miss another. Sometimes I get homesick, but I try to forget it, because that home sickness stuff don’t go over here.
When we get settled I’m going to soldiering, for soldiers are the only fellows that will go back, and I for one, must go home.
I haven’t received any mail from the states yet, and I sure would love to hear from home. You must write me a long letter just as soon as you get this, for a letter over here is like a wedding at home – and for one copy of the Newport Independent I would give two francs.
Dee, I can’t think of anything interesting to write, so I “spec” I better try to get this through. Better have some red ham ready when I get there next winter.
Love to all,
Thomas J. Tims
Hds. 114 Fiel Signal Battalion
American Exp. Forces
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY ISAAC WOLTER
Well, I would enjoy being at home now, just to see all the cotton coming in. Gee, I wonder what cotton will b eworth before the season is over.
Dee, there isn’t much that we can write about over here. We don’t know any war news, and I wouldn’t care to write about it if I did. We are billeted in a dry place in a very pretty section of France; at least they say it’s pretty; I’ve never been out to see.
I will miss my Christmas dinner for the first time in my life, but I hope I won’t have to miss another. Sometimes I get homesick, but I try to forget it, because that home sickness stuff don’t go over here.
When we get settled I’m going to soldiering, for soldiers are the only fellows that will go back, and I for one, must go home.
I haven’t received any mail from the states yet, and I sure would love to hear from home. You must write me a long letter just as soon as you get this, for a letter over here is like a wedding at home – and for one copy of the Newport Independent I would give two francs.
Dee, I can’t think of anything interesting to write, so I “spec” I better try to get this through. Better have some red ham ready when I get there next winter.
Love to all,
Thomas J. Tims
Hds. 114 Fiel Signal Battalion
American Exp. Forces
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY ISAAC WOLTER