Powhatan Clarke letter to Valentines - February 14, 1918
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February 14
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received. I guess they will turn up in a few days. As you can from the envelope see I have left the old squadron. We are in the same place even in the same rooms but we are now unattached and waiting orders. Probably all we will do for a while is wait. We have now almost all the time to ourselves & it is just as hard as having none because we have nothing
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[page 2] to do with it. By the way whenever anything of importance happens in the regard to the will, instead of just writeing the latest development, give me a short resumme of everything since I left so I will be sure not to miss anything. I got a bunch of Censor
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change the million addresses for the first time. I imagine you will have to change them pretty often so you had better keep a list. Following are wanted. Cigarettes, canned heat, some kind of crackers like [ms illegible: 1 wd] biscuits saddle soap, tan shoe polish, Campbell
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[page 3] I certainly did not expect to stand the racket the way I have which has been perfect. We don
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you are going to do something on Sunday and your letter is dated [January] 17 & I receive it [February] 10 it takes a long time to find out what the duce that Sunday was. I don
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[page 4] to do in Washington. You know you have to keep me up on the new plays & things like that and if you all hide in a hole & then pull the hole in after you I wont like it. Besides you have to keep in training if you ever expect to keep up the pace I
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I wonder if he has taught his friend wife any better manners. There goes
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[page 5] Thank heavens we don
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on the house. The mother & her sister threaten to get permission to go through our clothes if we don
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morally rotten as some people try to make out but I did expect to find a moral standard lower than ours. The people I have seen are if anything better morally than the corresponding class at home they certainly are more hospitable and mannerly. Our present wildest dissipation is to rent bicycles and go off for a ride in the country. The villages are very close together and we always stop some place for a glass of wine. The people always want to know about the U.S. and are always politely incredulous when we tell them. We get into the darndest arguments. It kind of gets my goat because we cant give them any idea of the size & distances at home, they refuse to believe
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us. Good bye God bless you Powie Send letters now 1st Lt etc Sig R.C.A.S. Unattached A.E.F. via New York O.K. Powhatan H. Clarke 1st Lieut Sig R.C.A.S.
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| Title | Powhatan Clarke letter to Valentines - February 14, 1918 |
| Creator | Clarke, Powhatan |
| Source | Clarke, Powhatan. Letter to Valentines. 14 February 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Powhatan H. Clarke wrote this letter to the Valentines and told them that he had received letters and asked for more things to be sent over. Clarke served with the 21st Aero Squadron and Labor Bureau A.E.F. during Word War I. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Military life--United States |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI; United States. Army. Aero Squadron, 21st |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | February 14, 1918 |
| Language | English |