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Title |
Letter from Elwood Wright, Field Clerk in the American Expeditionary Forces, France |
Dates of Creation |
May 7 1919 |
Scope & Content |
Typed letter from Elwood Wright, A.F.C., to Mabel. Elwood is part of the Third Corps School of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Elwood writes to Mabel, a friend, about his time in France, post WWI. He tells Mabel about his family, who moved to Wilmington, and how he doesn't know when he'll be home. Although the war is over, the filed clerks in the American Expeditionary Forces are still on assignment. He isn't sure of what he'll do once he arrives home - potentially work for duPont Company again, but he doesn't want them to send him to Michigan or New Mexico, but prefers to stay in Wilmington. He asks Mabel about her gardening, and as well as the inability to get a helmet as a souvenir, as he's far from the fighting, and that they are scarce. He describes his two week furlough, in which he had planned to travel to England, then Italy, but were impossible, and so he settled on traveling through souther France. |
Year Range from |
1919 |
Year Range to |
1919 |
Subjects |
Letter Friends Furlough Trip France War War effort War era World War I Garden Gardening Gardening tools Helmets Soldiers Travel Travel plans Sickness Sick Sick persons |
Search Terms |
Pusey and Jones shipbuilding Wilmington American Expeditionary Forces France World War I WWI duPont Company gardening garden helmet furlough Lyon Avignon Paris Toulouse |
People |
Wright, Elwood |
Collection |
Historical Society of Western Virginia |
Imagefile |
070\1966453.JPG |
Number of images |
1 |
Object Name |
Correspondence |
Object ID |
1966.45.3 |
Extent of Description |
Two sheets of paper, 11 h x 8.5 w |