Dreams of Things That Were

Category: Base P.O.

  • Artifact 1940-10-11 – Letter to Miss La Verne Woods

    Letter to Miss La Verne Woods – October 11, 1940

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    Aldershot, Eng.
    October 11/40

    Dear Sister:-

    I was so glad to hear from you this morn. I have been looking for a letter from you for so long. & I begin to think you had forgotten your little brother in England. I have written you about three times.

    Well I’ll start answering some of your questions. It’s a good thing you ask me things. Or I wouldn’t know what to write.

    Well the liking of England is wearing off now. “There is no place like home.” No mater what kind of a dump your home is. It is better than anyplace else.

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  • Artifact 1940-08-04 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

    Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman – August 4, 1940

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    Sunday Aug. 4/40

    Dear Franc:-

    We arrived in England safely & am having a fairly good time only haven’t been here long enough to know what things are like. We just arrived too yesterday aft.

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  • Artifact 1940-07-20 – Letter to Miss La Verne Woods

    Letter to Miss La Verne Woods – July 20, 1940

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    Sat. Morn.

    Dear La Verne:-

    I guess you know I have left Camp Borden. last week-end. I got a letter from Frances yesterday & she said she was talking to you on the phone that morning. (last sun.). I guess she was sort of upset when I phoned her from Camp & told her I was leaving.

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