Sidney Towner Phelan letter to Donna - February 27, 1918
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[February] 27, 1918 [censor’s signature] Dearest Donna, I was certainly glad to get that letter from you not so long ago. I wish I could go home for a few weeks and see all of you but a furlough home is something to dream of. Perhaps after two years or so I may get one. That sweater you made me is a peach and those knit sox are most useful. It has fixed me up so that I can go about six months before I need any more wool clothes except sox and I guess I will need some of those in three or four months but not before. I am mighty glad Val passed his ground school exams and Fax for transferred to the Engineers. It’s great! I am getting to be pretty lazy. We are still waiting to be attached to
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a division and are just marking time until things begin. It’s boring and then some! Have my pictures been received. I have two others. I will send one for you. In my last letter to Mother I didn’t have space to answer her questions so I will answer them here. Of course I am well - I think I am a little heavier but now much. Our cantonment is excellent a large farm house -- our food is better than what you have with all your wheatless and meatless days - the weather is mild - my time is spent playing baseball and bridge, writing letters, reading, taking walks, telling everybody how the war should be fought and listening to them telling me. I think that answers most of her questions. Did that beret and fourragere I sent get home all right? Lots of love, Towner
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| Title | Sidney Towner Phelan letter to Donna - February 27, 1918 |
| Creator | Phelan, Sidney Towner |
| Source | Phelan, Sidney Towner. Letter to Donna. 27 February 1918. Sidney Towner Phelan Papers, 1899-1960. A1209. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Sidney Towner Phelan, a St. Louis, Missouri native, wrote this letter to Donna while serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in France during World War I. In this letter, Phelan wrote that his unit was still waiting to be attached to a division. He also described his daily life and living conditions. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--France; Rationing--United States; Billeting of soldiers |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1209 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | February 27, 1918 |
| Language | English |