John Lenhart letter to Eleanor McGee - n.d.
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Ward 15 Dear Miss McGee Will drop you a line to leave you known I have not forgotten your kindness while in France. I landed on the U. S. Grant the second of April. I have been home on a five days furlo. I is put to be transfered to [ms illegible: 1 wd] in about fourteen days my leg has improved very little since I left Vittel. The weather has been beautiful since I have arrived you cannot immagin how much better one feeles after arriving in a country where civilized people lives again.
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I do not think they could get me to goe to France again. Now Miss McGee have me know when you come home my Mother would like awfully well to meet you I have told many people how you had treated me after getting away from the Germans. When you write address to Somerset [Pennsylvania] then it will be sent to me from home. Will write you again later after I am operated on how I am getting along. Your Bum, John Lenhart. Somerset [Pennsylvania]
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| Title | John Lenhart letter to Eleanor McGee - n.d. |
| Creator | Lenhart, John |
| Source | Lenhart, John. Letter to Eleanor McGee. n.d. Eleanor McGee Collection, 1918-1920. 1938.100. The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Description | Written on Base Hospital Camp Dix, New Jersey letterhead, John Lenhart thanked Eleanor McGee for her kindness in Vittel, France while he was in hospital. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--War work--Red Cross |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; U.S.S. Grant |
| Site Accession Number | 1938.100 |
| Contributing Institution | National World War I Museum and Memorial |
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| Date Original | n.d. |
| Language | English |