Dreams of Things That Were

Tag: Cottam

  • 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 1940-06-21 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

    Artifact 1940-06-21 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

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    Camp Borden, Ont.
    Thurs. nite.

    Dear Frances:

    I received your letter the other day & also the girls. They sure did swell in writing them too. Thanks a lot for the box Frances. It sure was good. We just got it finished in the middle of the week, when Johnny Burn’s wife sent him a box. He & Bob sleep with Glen Piper & I. The four of us in our tent.

    I got a letter from Glaydys Gladys & Wilbur to-day & also one from La Verne. I sure was glad to hear from her. She said she was talking to you before she wrote. And that you expected coming up here this weekend. I hope you do. I’m sure counting on it. La Verne said if I came to Cottam, to let her know & they she would come over & see me.

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