Love Letters

Love Letters
136 letters from 1918, WWI

Friday, April 11, 2014

Letter 107


Letter 107
                                                                                                                                                                                January 13, 1919

                                                                                                                                                                          Demange, France

Dear Sweetheart,

                                I bet you think I must be getting love sick to be writing again tonight, but you’ll forgive me, won’t you dear?  This morning we left Berthleville, and came to Demange, about 12 kilometers west by north.  We arrived here about noon after mess.  We started to rebuild the barns we tore down before.  After we get through I do not know where we will go, but I hope it’s toward home, don’t you dear? Has Clarence gotten home yet? Is he with his wife now? He told me in his last letter he was getting married just as soon as he mustered out.

                            I suppose you can tell by the paper where I’m at.  Well it is a good place to write, so I another page to you would not hurt. The snow is all gone, so we are having the same kind of weather again. This town is the largest one we have ever been stationed in.  So you see, it is quite a treat for some of the fellows.  My pen went dry on me tonight so I had to use this ink; but just overlook it, for if you are anything like me, you would be happy to receive any letter regardless of paper or writing.

                                Well dear, do you remember that tune on the Victrola, Nellie Was a Lady, that you did not like and I used to play it just to tease you?  Well, I heard that again tonight.  My, how my thoughts traveled back home, and how I would like to have been there even if I had to go home at 11 o’clock. Ha! Ha!  Would you send me home then?

                                Well dear, I must say good night.  Wishing God’s protection around you is the loving wish I send to you.

                                                                                                                With oceans of love,

                                                                                                                Henry X XX

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