Oliver Vie letter to Corrine - n.d.
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Texas city Texas Dear niece i recieived your letter and was pleased to hear from you and take pleasure in answering your letter. And i hope this finds you all well as it does me at the presant time. Say you ask me about my chums well you see their is only about 75 in a company to bum with you know that is some croud. Well Corinne how is the baby geting big i suppose and so is Chubby i guess Say Corinne i guess if you look that time up agan i think you will find it is longer
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[page 2] than you say i have got over half of the time in allready. Well we or having hot weather down here now it is just like a desert down here. in one year and five months i guess i will be back in [St. Louis] but i course i can not tell for sure. Say how is Gerry is she geting big and is she well. Well I suppose your daddy is pretty busy this time of the year you tell him to have a nice cool
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[page 3] drink for Ollie i mean the good old Hyde Park beer the beer that made St. Louis [Missouri] famous tell Genie the same for the beer in Texas has nothing on what
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[page 4] take it from me. Well i would have been up there now but you see the railroad fare cost so mutch but i may get there before long. Well you tell Chubby and Gerry hello for me and say the baby won
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| Title | Oliver Vie letter to Corrine - n.d. |
| Creator | Vie, Oliver |
| Source | Vie, Oliver. Letter to Corrine. n.d. Oliver Vie Papers, 1913-1919. A2285. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Oliver Vie was born January 28, 1887, in St. Louis, Missouri. After working for several years in a shoe factory, he enlisted in the Army in October 1913, Company K, 26th Infantry. He served along the Mexican border before going with the first contingent to France in June 1917. He fought in the battles of Cantigny and Soissons and was wounded in action and died July 20, 1918. In this letter, Vie wrote his niece Corrine in regards to family matters and personal affairs. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Infantry regiment, 26th; Punitive Expedition by the United States Army into Mexico, 1916 |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2285 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | c.a. 1913-1916 |
| Language | English |