Sidney Towner Phelan letter to mother - February 21, 1918
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[February] 21, 1918 [censor’s signature] Dearest Mother, The weather is nice and warm and as a result we have played a little baseball. I am stiff and sore in every muscle and joint of my body from the unaccustomed exercises. I got a letter from May Birkhead today. She has been laid up with the grippe and is just getting about. She mentioned Mrs. Birkhead getting a letter from you. She also said that Col. J would have extended my permission as long as she needed me and he been in town then. Lot of good that does me now. The army has undertaken to say just where and where not one may
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spend his permission and we are absolutely barred from a certain very attractive city one I have already spent three months in. I don’t exactly like to be kept out of that city but it cant be helped. I received a razor set from Aunt Winnie. I have written he thanking her for it. I also got a subscription for the Saturday Evening Post though I don’t know who from. Will you send me some calling cards. They cost about $1.50 a pack now. Will you also send McCampbell’s “Auction Tactics” and don’t forget those 15 copies of Drake’s article on section 5 that appeared in the P.D. Lots of love, Towner S.S. U. 646 Convois Automobile Par B.C.M. Paris A.E.F.
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| Title | Sidney Towner Phelan letter to mother - February 21, 1918 |
| Creator | Phelan, Sidney Towner |
| Source | Phelan, Sidney Towner. Letter to mother. 21 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 his Mother while serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in France during World War I. In this letter, Phelan wrote that he was sore from playing baseball and that the Army had forbidden soldiers from going on leave in France. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--France; Baseball; Soldiers--Recreation |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1209 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | February 21, 1918 |
| Language | English |