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to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother regarding the unreliability of the mail. Reminds her that the army issues plenty of socks but no maple sugar. Encloses a photograph of boys with whom he came to Europe (not included). Describes his trip to England and Scotland...

GLC07810.019

to Dr. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his father sending him birthday wishes. Reports that letters are strictly censored and he is not able to write with much detail. Includes his address. Postscript reports that the letter was returned; it was eventually mailed with...

GLC07810.021

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother about his general well-being. Inquires as to Harold's whereabouts. Includes a Christmas list and instructions for mailing care packages. Written on a YMCA aerogramme. An aerogramme consists of a blank sheet of paper with...

GLC07810.025

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Thanks his mother for all her letters and wants to know how long it takes for his correspondence to reach Ohio. Asks about Harold and reports that he has not received any mail from him. Tells his mother that a Christmas package coupon was sent from...

GLC07810.027

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother about the little opportunity for writing and sending mail and that he has been promoted to private first-class. Discusses Harold's well-being and whereabouts. Mentions the Christmas package mailing and refines his wish list....

GLC07810.029

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Tells his mother that he is writing this letter on the floor of his tent out of the torrential rain. Mentions having received a letter from Harold. Includes a description of the local flowers in bloom directed at his father. Reminds his mother...

GLC07810.030

to Dr. and Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his parents apologizing for not having written. Encloses a Christmas package permit (not included) and a reminder of what he would like sent. Replies to local news sent from home. Reports the outbreak of lice (cooties) in his camp....

GLC07810.031

to Dr. and Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Informs his parents that he has received a bundle of 26 letters from home. Includes instructions and mailing information for sending a Christmas package. Reports camp and war news. Discusses the possibility of getting a furlough. Written on YMCA...

GLC07810.032

to Dr. and Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother describing his daily life and the war conditions. Asks for knitted goods to be sent with his Christmas package. Apologizes for his lack of correspondence. Written on YMCA letterhead.

GLC07810.033

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes a birthday note to his mother. Tells her that the skirmishes she reads about in the newspaper are over. He is excited about his Christmas package but wouldn't mind being en route to Ohio when it arrives in France. Written on a YMCA...

GLC07810.036

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother about his Christmas and that he received a care package. Describes his daily activities. Adds that for the first time in his life he has gained weight. Writes that he has not heard from Harold and inquires as to his well-being...

GLC07810.039

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother about moving to a new town and having received her Christmas package. Describes the local weather and his letter-writing conditions. Written on Knights of Columbus letterhead.

GLC07810.040

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Replies to his mother's letter about local news. Describes his wherabouts and daily activities. Writes that his letter is cut short by a celebration surrounding canned peaches and condensed milk purchased at the YMCA canteen. Written on YMCA...

GLC07810.041

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother on Easter explaining that he has not left Camp d'Auvours but expects to be on the move in three weeks. Has sent her silk stockings from Paris and hopes they will reach her unscathed. Encloses letters from two children in...

GLC07810.055

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes his mother a Mother's Day letter a week early in hopes of being en route to the states on the holiday. Short letter discusses the delays in coming home. Written on American Expeditionary Force letterhead.

GLC07810.057

to Dr. A.W. Hopkins

Writes his father a belated birthday letter from Camp Dix, New Jersey. Describes his return to the states and his daily activities. Adds that he will be sending a parcel with his belongings. Written on American Expeditionary Force letterhead....

GLC07810.058

to Helen Lyons

Writes to his wife about his homecoming in New York. Mentions he will be transferred to Camp Mead, Maryland, for his official discharge. Adds that the 77th Division is having a parade in New York City. Written on Army and Navy Young Men's...

GLC07810.074

to Mrs. Perry

Writes to his parents about travel plans for Christmas. Describes the rigorous fighter pilot tests he has been enduring. Discusses possible career opportunities for the future and what a great experience the war and Europe has been. Jokes that he...

GLC07810.084

to Gladys Schoomaker

Writes to his niece about military life and asks about friends at home. Encourages Gladys to study hard and be the first person in the family to graduate from high school. Includes a Christmas package coupon. Written on YMCA letterhead.

GLC07810.088

to Ruth Backof

Thanks Backof for the Christmas card. Replies to a comment regarding an abundance of tomatoes and how they would be a delicacy to a man in the army. Writes that he would like to go out with a lady and then jokes that he woke up and saw uniforms all...

GLC07810.091

to Hazel Reese

Sends a friend a Christmas postcard. Pictured on the card is a young girl modeling a soldier's dress hat in front of a mirror. Image by René Vincent, printed by Draeger, Imp.

GLC07810.094

to Hazel Reese

Writes to a friend about how news of the armistice was recieved in camp. Discusses coming home and his Thanksgiving. Wishes he could be home with Hazel for Christmas and jokes that if he is lucky, he will be home in time for New Years' 1920!...

GLC07810.095

to Kenneth S. Anderson [in French]

Boarding house mistress writes to Captain Anderson about how glad she is that they have become friends. She encourages him to maintain his French and wonders if he plans on returning to Journy. Comments on the sad state of the Journy landscape and...

GLC07810.103

[Certificate of registration presented to William McChesney Muth]

Countersigned by Paul C. Wolman and R.B. Hardy, Jr. Presented to Muth on his fifteenth birthday anniversary by his father, G. Harry Muth. Document explains that each copy of the book in which this document was originally bound is registered in the...

GLC07810.107

to Mrs. Henry Slocum

Thanking her for flowers sent on his 69th birthday: "If I can worry through another year...time with his scythe... may make a deep swath, but cannot cheat me of seventy years on this insignificant globe with a fair measure of life's pleasures and...

GLC08113.01

to Theodora Colcock Huston

Says she is sorry it took so long to answer Hutson's letter. She is anxious to see her nephews. Asks when Hutson is coming to Ocean to visit. Speaks of family news, health, her children Annie and Emmie, and other matters. Says father (William F...

GLC08165.20

to Richard W. Hutson

Writes to his father that they have been constantly on the move and he has not had a chance to write. They have taken a circuitous route to flank the enemy and drive them out of the country. Discusses engagement at Bristoe Station the past week....

GLC08165.61

to Richard W. Hutson

Writes to his father that years of war have past and still no peace. His brother has told him of the military situation on the coast and he thinks they might have to give up some low country to the Union. Reports that General William T. Sherman...

GLC08165.66

List of Christmas Gifts

Someone lists their Christmas gift. Other side features illustration of blacksmith.

GLC08284.015

Harry Marching Down the Aisle, with His Christmas Tree Present

Other side contains partial manuscript about the Christmas season,

GLC08284.030

Happy New Year, 1869

Man and woman at a party.

GLC08284.033

to darling Cherry

He describes his Fourth of July. They weren't allowed to fire a salute so the Portuguese flag ship had to do it for them, which he describes as humiliating. Written in Lisbon Harbor

GLC08284.080

to Eunice Lombard Edwards

Replies to his mother from head quarters, 37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Comments on his location, noting that although he ordered his men to establish comfortable quarters, he does not think they will spend the winter there (possibly at...

GLC02163.14

to Mary "Mollie" McLean

He mentions the irony of celebrating Independence Day when they are no longer a unified country. They are having bad luck with officers and cannot afford to lose any more. He saw Henry Hale.

GLC02161.085

to Mary "Mollie" McLean

He asks her for pillows, sheets and a quilt for Christmas.

GLC02161.104

to Norman R. Dewey

He didn't realize the holidays were so close because his mind was on the recent earthquake. He had intended to go to the south of Italy or France but ended up staying there

GLC02161.164

to Ira Andrews

He quickly writes that he is in acceptable health and that enclosed with the letter is a check for $40. Noticing the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, he ends the letter lamenting that he "should like to be with you all on Thanksgiving but I must eate...

GLC02158.21

to Mary Blackman

Writes to his mother that he spent Thanksgiving in Gettersburg [Gettysburg?]. They are now four miles from Harper's Ferry.

GLC02159.17

to Lucy Knox

Expresses his love for Lucy, but says that the love of his country must keep them apart for now. Discusses the Battle of Trenton (26 December 1776) in depth. Starts by stating that Lucy must "have heard of our success on the morning of the 26th...

GLC02437.00497

to Henry Knox

Replies to a letter from Henry from 21 June, in which Knox discussed British movement in detail. Agrees with Knox, that the British in the New York/New Jersey area will "form a junction with the Nothern [sic] Army." Worries that General George...

GLC02437.00621

to Henry Knox

Notes that Captain Randall is not leaving as soon as she expected, thus she can add more lines to her letter, a continuation of GLC02437.00642. Writes, "I forgot to tell you how much I am mortified at having received an epistle from you wrote upon...

GLC02437.00643

to Henry Knox

Comments on General John Stark and the Battle of Bennington ( 16 August 1777): "I don't think all History from Adam to this day, can produce such an instance, which an unequal number of raw undisciplind militia, have attack'd a Superor number of well...

GLC02437.00639

to Frank Richardson

Written from an unknown soldier. Written on stationery of the Sergeant of Arms Office, House of Representatives, noted "Q.M. Gen.s Office." Envelope with 3 cent (1861) pink stamp, postmarked. Discusses the fall of Richmond and the celebration of...

GLC02034.02

to Elliot C. Cowdin

Wishes Cowdin a happy New Year. Addressed to Cowdin in New York.

GLC02095.17

to Lewis Pintard

Informs that he has been confined four weeks with gout and was not able to write. Begins by writing about ordering trees from Mr. Livingston. Disagrees with a legal position maintained by Alexander Hamilton, who was an attorney in New York City at...

GLC02046

to Father

It is his birthday and he is 24. He would love to be at home but he understands how necessary it is for him to be here. He expects a battle soon and he hopes a speedy peace to follow.

GLC02173.06

to Jemima Shifflet

Shifflet was unhappy to hear that his wife is "striping tobacco for I donte want you to hav to work for noboddy but your self." He has "but one oald shirt and hit [it] is full of holes and no socks a tall." He asks for descriptions of the children...

GLC02174.06

to George F. Morse

expressions of friendship, speculations about the arrival of prisoners to Hart's Island, Morse's transfer to Fort McHenry, and anticipation of his 21st birthday

GLC02180.10

to father

the receipt of package, inquiry about a coat for Chris Skelton, the observance of Christmas in the barracks, and the harshness of the weather. Written on Hart Island

GLC02180.15

to Brother Henry

They had a dull Christmas. He does not want to hear of his brother becoming a soldier. For the moment there are plenty of rations and clothing. He has not spoken to Ed since he last wrote. Written in a camp near Fredericksburg.

GLC02172.58