Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - August 11, 1918
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No 29 August 11
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months. I simply cant find the time. I simply cant get those photographs off. I don
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As things are fixed now I certainly don
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[page 2] like that. The darn thing was just made out wrong and there you are. Because of this I have sent two cables. One last Monday (the 4th I think) another Wednesday (? the 6 ?) and I will send another tomorrow and pray vigorously that at least one of the blooming things gets through. They said I was out here to get experience. Hope I never have another one of that kind. I requested leave again. Of course the request had to go through the commanding officer here & this is the nice little endorsement he put on it. 1.
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disapproved something is going to pop. I have just found out how to do it. I certainly am not going to sit down & say thank you. My leave is three months late now. All this sounds as if I were having a hell of a time but its not quite that bad. There is absolutely no amusement except once in a while a half hour of bridge when I have time. That blooming company of mine can turn up more difficulties in one day than a regular army co would in a year. You see its something entirely new and nobody knows anything about what it ought to have, what authority I have and a few other little simple questions like that. Sometimes I don
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The post QM and I are pretty good friends now. I have to see him about something nearly every day
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[page 3] so you see I have a little excitement to keep me going. The officers here are a fine bunch but to hear us talk together you would think we were deadly enemies. Always throwing cabbage around. Hope by the time you get this I
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P.S. I want to call your attention to the fact that the Labor Bureau has moved from A.P.O. 702 to 717 If I could get in the Labor Bureau at 717 I wouldn
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| Title | Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - August 11, 1918 |
| Creator | Clarke, Powhatan H. |
| Source | Clarke, Powhatan H. Letter to Mother. 11 August 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Letter from Powhatan H. Clarke to his mother about his new job with the Labor Bureau and disagreeable officers. 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; Soldiers--Social conditions--20th century |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | August 11, 1918 |
| Language | English |