Charles Stevenson letter to Grandma - March 31, 1918
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[YMCA letterhead] [Camp Funston, Kansas] March 31 - Thursday night. Dear Grandma: Just a few words of love and information to you that I am well and feeling fine& I am now going to boxing school one hour each daY. I get trained in how to fight and I learn the various punches and guards so that if I lose my gune in a battle I can fight with my fists. I go from two to three o
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[page 2] your letter regarding, the monument in France, so you had best save it for me. You should see my scrap book now. I sure have it fixed up fine. A lot of more pictures have been pasted in it and there are also some more clippings. In regard to reporting for Trench and Camp the captain talked to me for thirty minutes today regarding the possibilities I have of putting the Engineers on the map. Some class I will say. I am going to branch out if possible and I intend to send some of the stuff to the Star and a couple of St. Louis newspapers. If there is any way for you to get my fifteen dollars for the wheel I wish you would help me to get it as I intend to buy another wheel and to get much benefit out of it I ought to buy it at once. I was figuring on getting one the next time I am in Kansas City. Where Mrs & McClintock got the idea that I sold the wheel I do not know as I never even dreamt of selling it to anybody here. This is about all the news there is. For the past week I have been helping Phil Stone, Virginia
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[Camp Funston, Kansas] Sunday - Easter - March 31, 1918 Dear Grandma: Not a thing new, except a bunged up shoulder from playing ball today. Everything I go into recently finds me all smashed up at the end. Such is life! You letter came day before yesterday. I got that long letter from Maurice and supposed that was the reason you had not sent it to me. I would have been home today except for a ceremony we have called muster. Nobody got any passes so it was impossible for me to get away today. I have been busy all afternoon on this Trench and Camp work. As to your coming out next week I sure hope that you can. If you come to Manhattan get a street car out of there which will get you at a stop known as Packer
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name and address where you will be in Manhattan and I will call you up should you get there Friday. I think it would be more advisable for you to come on Friday than to come Saturday. If you come I can get away to return to Manhattan or Junction City with you, so be sure to let me know. I had a lot of dope in Trench and Camp, which I will send you very soon. One of the articles got me into a lot of trouble. I
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| Title | Charles Stevenson letter to Grandma - March 31, 1918 |
| Creator | Stevenson, Charles |
| Source | Stevenson, Charles. Letter to Grandma. 31 March 1918. Stevenson, Charles S. Collection. 1979.24; 1982.202. National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Description | Charles Stevenson wrote to his grandma about a visit to Camp Funston, Kansas. Stevenson enlisted in Kansas City, Missouri and became attached to Company A, 314th Engineers at Camp Funston, Kansas. Stevenson was shipped overseas on June 12, 1918 where he remained for the duration of the war. He arrived back in the United States on May 26, 1919. |
| Subject LCSH | Camp Funston (Kan.); World War, 1914-1918--Military life--United States |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | 1979.24; 1982.202 |
| Contributing Institution | National World War I Museum and Memorial |
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| Date Original | March 31, 1918 |
| Language | English |