Sidney Towner Phelan letter to mother - February 5, 1918
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[February] 5, 1918 [censor’s stamp] Dearest Mother, Today I received your letters of [December] 24, 28, and 30th; Dauran’s letter of Dec. 17; Nenaine’s of [January] 1; Miss Markham’s of [December] 24 and Jane Matthews’ of [December] 17th. Quite a lot. Tell Miss Markham I have received several letters from her, have replied to most of them and will reply to this last. I was very interested in that clipping from the [St. Louis Post Dispatch] (the article about S.S.U. 5 written by Robert Drake. He is no longer in the section but his brother is the lieutenant commanding the section. The old section 5 men think that article a very good one and have asked me to write for copies. I wish you would send my about 15 copies at least. Don’t enclose all in the same letter or they may be lost. I have given my clipping to Bill Atwood as about half the article is a record of his doing. In the Sunday picture section of the New York Tribune of Sunday [December] 30
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is an excellent picture taken within 50 yards of our main post. If possible get me at least one copy of the picture section of the Tribune of that date. Keep one copy and if you get two send me the other one. If Jack Harris or any of the fellows have pictures of S.S.U. 24 I wish you would get me a set and keep it at home for me. I want to make a scrap book after the was out of the material I am collecting. Send me any more clippings of interest. Give my love to Donna and the whole family. Lots of love Towner From S.T. Phelan S.S. U. 646 Convois Automobile P.C.M. Paris A.E.F. P.S. I will send you a fourragere so will know what it looks like.
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| Title | Sidney Towner Phelan letter to mother - February 5, 1918 |
| Creator | Phelan, Sidney Towner |
| Source | Phelan, Sidney Towner. Letter to mother. 5 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 asked that he be sent copies of articles from the St. Louis Post Dispatch and New York Tribune that featured his unit. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--France; World War, 1914-1918--Newspapers |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1209 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | February 5, 1918 |
| Language | English |