TRANSCRIBED FROM THE JONESBORO EVENING SUN SEPTEMBER 25, 1918 P. 1
August 11, 1918.
Mrs. Mallie Nicholson.
Dear Cousin:
I will write you just a few lines to see if I can hear from you. I have written you three letters and haven’t received any answer. I am in the hospital now. I have been here a month. I was shot through the arm. I am getting along just fine. I don’t know just how long it will be until I can go back to my company. I think I will be here for a good long while time yet. Send my mail here anyway it will follow me up.
How is old big Scott getting along railroading.
This sure is a pretty place where I am now. I am in about five miles of Spain.
Well, I have written about all I can. Tell Maybell I said hello. I sure would like to see you all. Well I will close, hoping to hear from you soon.
CURTIS WOOD.
NOTES: Curtis Wood had been listed on the casualty list as missing in action. The family feared he was dead. This letter, to his cousin Mollie Nicholson of Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the first word he was recovering in a hospital in France. He was able to rejoin his company about the time of the armistice and was stationed in Germany to patrol on the Mozelle River. He returned home in late December 1918. He was of medium height and build. He had blue eyes and light hair. He was born March 7, 1896 and died April 1964.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
August 11, 1918.
Mrs. Mallie Nicholson.
Dear Cousin:
I will write you just a few lines to see if I can hear from you. I have written you three letters and haven’t received any answer. I am in the hospital now. I have been here a month. I was shot through the arm. I am getting along just fine. I don’t know just how long it will be until I can go back to my company. I think I will be here for a good long while time yet. Send my mail here anyway it will follow me up.
How is old big Scott getting along railroading.
This sure is a pretty place where I am now. I am in about five miles of Spain.
Well, I have written about all I can. Tell Maybell I said hello. I sure would like to see you all. Well I will close, hoping to hear from you soon.
CURTIS WOOD.
NOTES: Curtis Wood had been listed on the casualty list as missing in action. The family feared he was dead. This letter, to his cousin Mollie Nicholson of Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the first word he was recovering in a hospital in France. He was able to rejoin his company about the time of the armistice and was stationed in Germany to patrol on the Mozelle River. He returned home in late December 1918. He was of medium height and build. He had blue eyes and light hair. He was born March 7, 1896 and died April 1964.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT