Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - September 5, 1918
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No 32 [September] 5-1918 My dearest Mother: This is merely a note a kind of skeleton to fill in a gap. I am writing in an awful hurry but I want to get something off. A few days ago I received a mob of letters postmarked from May 21 at St. Louis to [August] 8 at Washington. I have not even had time to read them. The only ones I have opened are the two addressed to the Labor Bureau because I wanted to know what you thought of my fizzle. However these letters are not
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the first you wrote after you knew of my change so I
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Sad to relate our colonel asked all officers serving with the A.S.C. as a personal favor to request transfer to the A.S.C. as he wanted to fell that all his officers had the good of the service at heart ( ha haw) It is really a very wise an reasonable request but it hurts to change the wings for a 1st Lt. A.S.C. However I am
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I am well up on the list of Lieuts and there are only 48 of us. As soon as things are organized we will have at least a
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[page 2] The credit L. but it seems as if you had sent me too much money. Mauaines draught for the allowance of 50 a month arrived. It was only by accident that I opened that letter as I have [ms illegible: 1 wd] 20 letters from you that I have not had time even to open. As soon as I get time to turn around I
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cigarettes & I forget what else. The package containing the Vest Pocket Kodac I have not received & they evidently have no record of it. You had better start a trace from St. Louis. If this writing seems bad and the English rotten please remember I am writing this at 2 AM after a hard days work and I have to be at a meeting at 10 AM tomorrow. I have covered 53 miles in a side-car today. I am at Nantes and at present am living at the Hotel de France. And I have a bath. Can you imagine it. Its blame expensive but I couldn
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to answer this mob of letters as soon as possible. I think after a week or so I will get the company running smoothly again & have some time to myself. Nantes seems to be a mighty good town (for a French town) & I
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| Title | Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - September 5, 1918 |
| Creator | Clarke, Powhatan H. |
| Source | Clarke, Powhatan H. Letter to Mother. 05 September 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Powhatan H. Clarke wrote to his mother and stated that the Army Service Corps had been created and the Labor Bureau was officially a part of the Corps. 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; Army Service Corps |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | September 5, 1918 |
| Language | English |