TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MORNING STAR, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 8, 1918 P. 6
I know you will be surprised to receive this letter by the permission of our son, who is a soldier boy for our dear Uncle Sam, and I am one of his nieces, being a nurse, we claim the same as the boys, our uncle, too.
Of course, as all mothers are dear, you will be anxious, but your dear boy is up now and was dressed yesterday; he has been sick here at our hospital about a week but is improving nicely now. He told me this morning he was going to write you today, also. It pleased him when I told him I was going to write you by his consent. He has been such a dear, good patient, it is a pleasure to wait on him.
Here is wishing him a speedy recovery and happy returns to you.
NOTES: Lulu Anna Wyman of the Army Nurse Corps serving in Liverpool, England was writing to the mother of a soldier under her care. The mother was Mrs. William Halley and her son was Clarence E. Halley who was serving with the 311th Sanitary Train of the 86th Division. Wyman was born July 6, 1885 at Boydsville, Kentucky. She completed her nurses training in Little Rock, Arkansas and she enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps with Arkansas Unit T in Little Rock and was sent to a hospital in Liverpool, England in 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
I know you will be surprised to receive this letter by the permission of our son, who is a soldier boy for our dear Uncle Sam, and I am one of his nieces, being a nurse, we claim the same as the boys, our uncle, too.
Of course, as all mothers are dear, you will be anxious, but your dear boy is up now and was dressed yesterday; he has been sick here at our hospital about a week but is improving nicely now. He told me this morning he was going to write you today, also. It pleased him when I told him I was going to write you by his consent. He has been such a dear, good patient, it is a pleasure to wait on him.
Here is wishing him a speedy recovery and happy returns to you.
NOTES: Lulu Anna Wyman of the Army Nurse Corps serving in Liverpool, England was writing to the mother of a soldier under her care. The mother was Mrs. William Halley and her son was Clarence E. Halley who was serving with the 311th Sanitary Train of the 86th Division. Wyman was born July 6, 1885 at Boydsville, Kentucky. She completed her nurses training in Little Rock, Arkansas and she enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps with Arkansas Unit T in Little Rock and was sent to a hospital in Liverpool, England in 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT