Robert C. Murphy letter to Elizabeth C. Clarke - November 7, 1922
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Carlisle Barracks Carlisle. [Pennsylvania] 11-7-22 RCM Mrs P.H. Clarke Hotel Powhatan, Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Clarke: Your note of October 26th received today, forwarded from Fort Thomas. I am here attending a course of instruction at the Medical Field Service School. I will be here till about [December] 20th, and then this, class goes to Washington for a further course from January 1st, 1923 to about June 25th. My family is with me and we are living at #153 Spring Road. If you can find it convenient to go West via Carlisle, I would be glad to have you stop off here. Our time is taken up at the school from 750a.m. to 5 p.m. But we have Saturday afternoons and all day Sunday off, and of course every evening. Perhaps you could [ms illegible: 1 wd] up Saturday or Sunday afternoon I have wondered many times since your last writing what had happened, for I
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expected to see you at Camp Sheridan, over a year ago. I am enclosing what might seem like a gruesome souvenier. The 21st Aero Squadron went across in the U.S.S. Mercury. Leaving New York on the night of [January] 3/1918. Our Squadron officers ate together at one of the smaller tables. Each day we would sign our names to the menue card and some one of the officers would take it for a memento. We would also write some sort of a motto or proverb on it. It was my turn on [January] 16/1918 so after discussing an appropriate motto or saying, we decided as you see. We had just arrived in the danger zone of the enemy sub-marines and had to eat our meals with our life belts on. Hence the gruesome toast. But instead of being gloomy, we toasted
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| Title | Robert C. Murphy letter to Elizabeth C. Clarke - November 7, 1922 |
| Creator | Murphy, Robert C. |
| Source | Murphy, Robert C. Letter to Elizabeth C. Clarke. 07 November 1922. Clarke Family Manuscript Collection, 1540-1926. DOC MSS 30. Saint Louis University Library and Special Collections, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Powhatan Hughes Clarke served with the 21st Aero Squadron and the Labor Bureau A.E.F. during World War I. He died from tuberculosis August 20, 1920. Clarke's mother, Elizabeth Clemens Clarke, corresponded with her son |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Medical Care; World War, 1914-1918--Chemical Warfare; Gas; Tuberculosis; World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations, American; Carlisle Barracks (Pa.); F0rt Thomas (Ky.) |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | DOC MSS 30 |
| Contributing Institution | Saint Louis University Library and Special Collections |
| Copy Request | Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Please contact the Saint Louis University Archives for details at 314-977-5516, or tachee@slu.edu. |
| Rights | Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Please contact the Saint Louis University Archives for details at 314-977-5516, or tachee@slu.edu. |
| Date Original | November 7, 1922 |
| Language | English |