Artifact 1940-06-02-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Page 1.
The envelope for this letter is missing. Based upon letter content, the date of the letter is believed to be June 2, 1940. Base artifact name arbitrarily set to “1940-06-02”.
The actual date of this artifact is unknown because the artifact itself is undated, and there is no accompanying envelope with postmarks. However, the artifact is believed to have been written Sunday, June 2, 1940. This date supposition is based on the timing of the departure of the “advance party” mentioned in Art_1940-06-01 (this artifact) and Art_1940-06-04.
Artifact 1940-06-02-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Page 2.
The envelope for this letter is missing. Based upon letter content, the date of the letter is believed to be June 2, 1940. Base artifact name arbitrarily set to “1940-06-02”.
The actual date of this artifact is unknown because the artifact itself is undated, and there is no accompanying envelope with postmarks. However, the artifact is believed to have been written Sunday, June 2, 1940. This date supposition is based on the timing of the departure of the “advance party” mentioned in Art_1940-06-01 (this artifact) and Art_1940-06-04.
Artifact 1940-06-02-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Page 3.
The envelope for this letter is missing. Based upon letter content, the date of the letter is believed to be June 2, 1940. Base artifact name arbitrarily set to “1940-06-02”.
The actual date of this artifact is unknown because the artifact itself is undated, and there is no accompanying envelope with postmarks. However, the artifact is believed to have been written Sunday, June 2, 1940. This date supposition is based on the timing of the departure of the “advance party” mentioned in Art_1940-06-01 (this artifact) and Art_1940-06-04.
Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman – Unknown Date, assumed June 2, 1940
Editor’s Note
The actual date of writing of this artifact is unknown because the envelope for this letter (containing postmarks) is missing, and the artifact itself is not dated, but is believed to be June 2, 1940, based upon Harry’s reference to related events. The artifact identifier has been arbitrarily set to “1940-06-02”.
Source: The editors at HarryManchester.com
*** TRANSCRIPTION OF ARTIFACT CONTENT ***
Camp
Borden
Sun.
aft.
Dear Frances:
Received your parcel
O.K. and also a letter Fri. & Sat. Thanks a lot for the dinner. It was
really swell. I just got the parcel about nine last night. I also got one from
Pearl’s sister. It was a big chocolate box full of date cake & some candy. Well
I had Marshall Healey over to our tent for dinner and of course I had Glen
piper stay is he and I are in the same tent. The chicken & dressing was
swell, but it is so warm in the day time I thought I’d better get it ate up.
Artifact 1940-06-04-a – Letter to La Verne Woods, sent from Saint Thomas, Ontario, Canada – Page 1.
Artifact 1940-06-04-a – Letter to La Verne Woods, sent from Saint Thomas, Ontario, Canada – Page 2.
Artifact 1940-06-04-a – Letter to La Verne Woods, sent from Saint Thomas, Ontario, Canada – Envelope, Obverse.
Artifact 1940-06-04 – Letter to La Verne Woods
*** TRANSCRIPTION OF ARTIFACT CONTENT ***
Camp Borden, Ont. Tues. nite.
Dearest La Verne:
Your letter was a very pleasant
surprise I sure did feel good when I saw your writing I opened it even before
Onnellee’s.
I had an address of yours, but I did thought you had moved since. So I asked Frances what it was in my last letter
to her. She’ll probably send it in her next letter. But however I’m glad you
got mine & wrote to me. I guess I’ve written about 25 or th 30
letters & I don’t know how many cards since I came a week ago.
Artifact 1940-06-06-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Page 1.
Artifact 1940-06-06-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Page 2.
Artifact 1940-06-06-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Envelope, Obverse.
Artifact 1940-06-06-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Windsor, Ontario, Canada – Envelope, Reverse.
Artifact 1940-06-06 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
*** TRANSCRIPTION OF ARTIFACT CONTENT ***
Camp Borden, Ont.
Dear Frances:
Was so glad to get your letter
to-nite. I was looking for one from you. I didn’t get one from Onn. To-day. I
guess she didn’t have time to write yesterday. Although it’s the first she’s
missed this weeke.
You sure had a lot of pullets out
of that bunch of chicks. I hope you have as good luck with these others as you
had with the last bunch. We were out on a scheme the other day & went into
a farm house to get our canteens full. They were just bringing some baby chicks
as we were there & Bob Diamond & I watched them put them out.
