Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - April 2, 1918
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No 11 April 2: 1918 My dear Mother. Morning
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At the last station we had to [ms illegible: 1 wd] sterno for hot water for shaving here we always have water on the stoves. Perhaps when it warms up will need some sterno here. We used to make chocolate etc. at
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[page 2] #11 Poor Daisy I certainly don
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weekend passes & I am going to take advantage of them to see the towns around here. Couldn
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[page 3] #11 everybody else complains the same way. I have bought 2 uniforms. I would have to buy another soon. Shoes wear out like hell. And so it goes. By the way speaking about money it seems to me that there ought to be some of mine coming in soon. You can send it to me. I mean in place of your own. The simplest way for you to do that would be for you to pay yourself back out of my money. I
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want any extra lucee
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[page 4] #11 I don
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Better use this address always yourselves as it takes such a long time for a change of address to reach you. I think it would be well to subscribe to the magazines because they are always sent to subscribers long before they appear for sale. The boxes I have received so far have been in very good condition. One or two a little battered but more of the contents injured. No chance of my being sent to England. I shall probable be unattached for a long while. Havn
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[page 5] #11 for flying. I am still under instruction on the 23 metre machines. I have only had six hops. Every time you leave the ground they call it a hop. A 23 metre machine is one whose total wing area is 23 sq meters so you can see it
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What do you know about the idea of not giving us any flying pay. I hope congress kills the idea. We are not getting any flying pay now it is suspended
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[page 6] #11 You will probably be as sick of the camera as I am of the cable address but here goes again. Send me a good Small sized camera. I want an especially good lense not the ones that ordinarly come in these cameras. I don
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hard course in aerial gunnery. Still don
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| Title | Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - April 2, 1918 |
| Creator | Clarke, Powhatan H. |
| Source | Clarke, Powhatan H. Letter to Mother. 02 April 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Powhatan Clarke wrote to his mother that he had received a package from her and asked for a few items, including magazines and a camera. He also discussed his flying school classes. 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; Soldiers--Recreation; Airplanes |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI; United States. Army. Aero Squadron, 21st; Flying school |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | April 2, 1918 |
| Language | English |