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SECTION 3

1918 Correspondence


1918 LETTER #11:



LETTER SUMMARY:


Harold's father Samuel Chapman apparently shared his son's letters from the Front Lines with a friend and business associate, who also had sons going to war.


SOME EXCERPTS FROM THIS LETTER:


1 page, typed

William C. Farber
Interior Woodwork and Mantles
New York
April 30th, 1918

Dear Sam,

"Enclosed you will please find the two letters from the boys, that you so kindly sent me to read, I not only read them myself but had about everybody that I thought would like to hear direct from the front line trenches read them.

These two boys are sure doing their bit . . . My boy left about two weeks ago . . .

We are hoping against hope that this thing will soon come to an end and that we will get our boys back again, this terrible thing seems like a rotten nightmare and damn the man or men that are responsible for it . . ."



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