1919 LETTER #6:

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LETTER SUMMARY:
In this letter, Bootus describes writing poems while at the "front" and sketches for a "parody show" to be performed by his Battalion.

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SOME EXCERPTS FROM THIS LETTER:


3 pages, ink

Y.M.C.A. (A.E.F.) Letterhead

Mulsanne, France
Mar 1 [1919]

Priv H. W. Chapman
Co D 101 US Eng
AEF

Dear Ma and Pa,

Every Division has a show even down to Battalion shows . . . Our 2nd Battalion show is written by "his nibs" (I don't expect to be around when the thing is put on).
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I also have written a poem which has taken me 18 months to write (I have lost some of it as the most of it was written on the different fronts).
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Getting back to my Battalion sketch I have eight parodies in it and I suppose I'll be presented with the cabbage. If they don't kill it over here we will let you have a crack at it when we return. It would first have to be modified for the feminine sex.
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Love,
Bootus

[Censor's script passing letter]

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