Merle Platte letter to Edmond R. Platte - April 8, 1919
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RETURN TO Mrs. E. R. Platte 1125 Broad St. SPRINGFIELD, [Missouri]. [stamp] SPRINGFIELD [April] 8 3 PM 1919 [Missouri]. Pvt. Edmond R. Platte, Company B, 110 Engineers American Expeditionary Forces France 50m-2-19-49814
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Springfield [Missouri], April 8, 1919 My Darling Daddie:-Just a few lines during the noon hour, will write as long as I have time, but as you know an hour goes awfully fast. (ast noon). I did not hear from you yesterday and I think every-body & his brother got mail but little (I) Sweetheart it sure does worry me when you don
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I haven
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dear and want you always. It seems as tho it has been 6 years since we were last to-gether. But Darling one if I ever get close enough to you to get my hands on you, you will never leave me again. How happy I will be when you get back. I am so unhappy & dissatisfied, sometimes I feel like just giving up to my feeling. But Darling knowing that I love you so & that soon you will be back
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to me, I guess we must wait a couple of months longer. Just to think it has been most a year since I left you down at Lawton. It was the 16th of April 1918. Mercy how miserably long it seems. Darling How are you feeling now? Did you get the money your Dad sent? It wasn
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would said about May 1st Sometimes I wonder did they know just what they are talking about. I was planning on seeing you this month & had my things all planned out & everything setting pretty and then when I have to wait, it sure hurts. Disappointment I think is the worse thing in the world. (My Daddie is the best tho.) Darling how I love you. Can you begin to realize how much your Darling wife, loves her Darling Daddie?
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Well Dear all the folks are well as far as I know. Only Mother & I are awfully disappointed because our boy can
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| Title | Merle Platte letter to Edmond R. Platte - April 8, 1919 |
| Creator | Platte, Merle |
| Source | Platte, Merle. Letter to Edmond R. Platte. 08 April 1919. Goad-Ballinger World War I Collection. Goad-Ballinger American Legion Post, Springfield, Missouri. |
| Description | Letter from Merle Platte to her husband Edmond Platte of the 110th Engineers. She writes him stating that she misses him and inquiring when he is sailing home. She is concerned about him since she hasn't heard from him recently. |
| Subject LCSH | Love-letters; World War, 1914-1918--Women; World War, 1914-1918--Correspondence |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Contributing Institution | American Legion Goad-Ballinger Post 69 |
| Date Original | April 8, 1919 |
| Language | English |