Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - September 7, 1918
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33 Sunday 7 [September] 1918. My dearest Mother
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only killed three men for his benefit. I think he had a different idea of the A.S. after that. As I told you before both Helen Day & Charlotte Olisen were at Issodun with me about four months ago. I
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The administrative Labor Companies (A.L.Co.) are a part of the L.B. (Labor Bureau) which was attached to the G.P.A. office (General Purchasing Agents Office), However the A.S.C. (Army Service Corps) has been organizing and the L.B. transferred bodily to it. I have written the abbreviation because we talk in hyrogliphics of that kind over here all the time. I am at present at Nantes living at the Hotel de France and cant realize its me. Nantes is about 300,000 & there is a great deal of life. The streets are always crowded. And they have street lights at night that
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| Title | Powhatan H. Clarke letter to Mother - September 7, 1918 |
| Creator | Clarke, Powhatan H. |
| Source | Clarke, Powhatan H. Letter to Mother. 07 September 1918. Clarke, Powhatan Papers. A0293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Powhatan H. Clarke wrote this letter to his mother answering the many letters she had sent concerning life back home. He also described life in Nantes, France where he was stationed. 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 |
| Site Accession Number | A0293 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | September 7, 1918 |
| Language | English |