Alfred Felkenheuer letter to Eleanor McGee - November 5, 1918
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[November 5, 1918] Miss Eleanor E. McGee! I will allow my to write your a letter. You was very kind to our. And wis will long thingk au you. All german prisoneurs in the rom spik thoingk you. Wenn I go
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to home will I spik my mother of you. Thenn will I amte studieren englisch. Here in the Hospital is it very good. Give Gott that the War not long god. Wenn you write will to finished the War me of Amerika a letter are you
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very kind. How do you do in French? I bin 22 Jahre old. Have a broder and sister. My vater is dead. Wen broder is in this War dead au the Front in [Galicia]. My health is not well. Good by your Prisoneur-War Alfred Felkenheuer
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Letter from German convalescent soldier in Base [Hospital] No. 23 in Vittel (Vosges) on evacuation from hospital. After the war this man with wife and child came to America (Kansas City, [Missouri]) to live and became naturalized.
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| Title | Alfred Felkenheuer letter to Eleanor McGee - November 5, 1918 |
| Creator | Felkenheuer, Alfred |
| Source | Felkenheuer, Alfred. Letter to Eleanor McGee. 05 November 1918. Eleanor McGee Collection, 1918-1920. 1938.100. The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Description | In this letter dated November 5, 1918, Alred Felkenheuer, German convalescent soldier, wrote to Eleanor McGee thanking her for her kindness. McGee noted on the last page that after the war Felkenheuer and his family later moved to Kansas City and became naturalized. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--War work--Red Cross; World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Base Hospital #23 |
| Site Accession Number | 1938.100 |
| Contributing Institution | National World War I Museum and Memorial |
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| Date Original | November 5, 1918 |
| Language | English; German |