Mary Ward Letter to Joseph Boyce - November 23, 1918
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[November 23, 1918] My dear Cousin Joe, A few lines to wish you & all with you a happy Christmas many, very many joyous returns. The news is good. We hope for a lasting & settled peace - we are all glad yr. President is coming over to preside at the peace deliberations & regulations. What we owe to yr. dear country & to the help so generously given by the colonies. Victory such as we have won no one ever anticipated. I hope it may now be ratified & the whole civilized would settle down to be better & higher. Our warriors are still in the field - or rather advancing [left margin] could accomplish it". Anyone advocating any [ms illegible: 1 wd] of the terms of peace [ms illegible: 1 wd] at [ms illegible: 1 wd] be [ms illegible: 1 wd] for ever. We are not yet finished with [ms illegible: 1 wd] fiendish for Hubert is gone by road with the cavalry. they passed over the field of [ms illegible: 1 wd] last Thursday en route Though Belgium, he said is [ms illegible: 1 wd] triumphal but when we get to Germany we don't know what awaits all well here or nearly so. We have been ill but now better. Best [ms illegible: 1 wd] & best wishes yrs ever Mary Ward
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Edward with the advanced [ms illegible: 1 wd] has been in Germany since [October] no news from him later than 3rd [ms illegible: 1 wd] then he described the snares laid for the cold & tired air man desending wet & weary - The foul foe retreating left hot coffee steaming on the table some drank & fell in agony - arsenic sweetened the coffee - An officer's Kit packed most temptingly - the scrambled for possessions be who caught it was blown to pieces A live cat nailed to a door - he who liberated blown to bits - the citizens gathered on the bridge to cheer for their liberation on the bridge & all sent the air - "only prayer can save me wrote Edward" - "out [ms illegible: 1 wd] is gruesome & only revenge
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| Title | Mary Ward Letter to Joseph Boyce - November 23, 1918 |
| Creator | Ward, Mary |
| Source | Ward, Mary. Mary Ward Letter to Joseph Boyce. 23 November 1918. Boyce, Joseph Collection, 1844-1913. A0161. The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | In this letter, dated November 23, 1918, Mary Ward wrote Joseph Boyce regarding the military service of her son Hubert Ward and sent Christmas greetings. |
| Subject LCSH | Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force; Great Britain. Army--Cavalry; Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps; Christmas; World War, 1914-1918--Atrocities |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A0161 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | November 23, 1918 |
| Language | English |