TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC APRIL 20, 1919 P. 3
A.E.F., A.P.O. March 21.
Mr. Myer Berlin:
My Dear Friend:
I received your kind letter. It found me well, and also glad to hear from home.
Listen, Mr. Berlin, you tell little Dave Berlin this is a fine country over hear. I has just now begun to have some fun. I has been on the fastest train in France. They call it the “Paris Special.” Also fine weather. I have seen most every fine building over hear—fine opera houses.
Give my brother my best regards. Plenty beer and wine, but I don’t drink much.
I also seen inside of a church been built one hundred and fifty years before the comeing of Christ. This is up on a mountain. The biggest Y. M. C. A. in the world it is also up there. They also have delivery stables, carriages, fine stock. Some fine place.
I want to come home, but I can’t not tell just when I will get there. I want to see you once more in life before I die.
From Newport News via to French, just only 3,500 miles cross the Atlantic ocean.
I don’t let anything worrie me at all because I has made good with the lieut. And also the Captain. Some days I drill and after that I can walk and after that I can walk around in the town an’ see the town.
Mr. Berlin, I wish you would ask my sister when she got any money from me. I can’t not hear from them at all.
Is you still keeping stock for sale. We has got a horse that looks just like Carter and he don’t allow no one to fool with him but me.
The war is over. Everything all right. Me and the Captain we are going for a ride. I like soldier life fine. All I get don’t cost me anything.
Tell all the family howdy for me. I will be home some day. Mr. Berlin, old Windy has seen some of the wourld.
Goodnight, from
Lewis Walker
Just as soon as I can get my picture out you look for one.
Co. A., 319 Lab. Bn. A.P.O. 911
Answer soon.
NOTES: Lewis Walker was writing to his former employer, Myer Berlin. He was born on December 18, 1887 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was described as being of medium height and stout with dark brown eyes and black hair. Walker was an African American soldier.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.
A.E.F., A.P.O. March 21.
Mr. Myer Berlin:
My Dear Friend:
I received your kind letter. It found me well, and also glad to hear from home.
Listen, Mr. Berlin, you tell little Dave Berlin this is a fine country over hear. I has just now begun to have some fun. I has been on the fastest train in France. They call it the “Paris Special.” Also fine weather. I have seen most every fine building over hear—fine opera houses.
Give my brother my best regards. Plenty beer and wine, but I don’t drink much.
I also seen inside of a church been built one hundred and fifty years before the comeing of Christ. This is up on a mountain. The biggest Y. M. C. A. in the world it is also up there. They also have delivery stables, carriages, fine stock. Some fine place.
I want to come home, but I can’t not tell just when I will get there. I want to see you once more in life before I die.
From Newport News via to French, just only 3,500 miles cross the Atlantic ocean.
I don’t let anything worrie me at all because I has made good with the lieut. And also the Captain. Some days I drill and after that I can walk and after that I can walk around in the town an’ see the town.
Mr. Berlin, I wish you would ask my sister when she got any money from me. I can’t not hear from them at all.
Is you still keeping stock for sale. We has got a horse that looks just like Carter and he don’t allow no one to fool with him but me.
The war is over. Everything all right. Me and the Captain we are going for a ride. I like soldier life fine. All I get don’t cost me anything.
Tell all the family howdy for me. I will be home some day. Mr. Berlin, old Windy has seen some of the wourld.
Goodnight, from
Lewis Walker
Just as soon as I can get my picture out you look for one.
Co. A., 319 Lab. Bn. A.P.O. 911
Answer soon.
NOTES: Lewis Walker was writing to his former employer, Myer Berlin. He was born on December 18, 1887 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was described as being of medium height and stout with dark brown eyes and black hair. Walker was an African American soldier.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.