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to Clara M. Miller

Pretty dull. Boats arriving.

GLC05755.095

to Clara M. Miller

A delegation from Congress to visit. Cute postscript.

GLC05755.096

to Clara M. Miller

GLC05755.097

to Clara M. Miller

A American-Russian Company to develop Atlantic. Has made an arrangement to go home.

GLC05755.098

to Pa

GLC07687.003

to Dear Cousins

Written on Hopewell Academy stationary.

GLC07687.004

to Sidney Diamond

Letter written from the publicity director of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in response to a letter that Diamond had written on July 2. The letter answers some of Diamond's questions pertaining to membership of CIO unions, postwar plans...

GLC09120.458

to Amos J. Harding

Harding has occupied a position that enables him to obtain information regarding the disbandment of the army. Wants clarification on the General Orders No 83 because these orders, according to our officers' understanding, limit its operation to...

GLC02178.09

to Amos J. Harding

Mustered out of service on 13 July and finally feels like a free citizen. Has not gone into business yet and is not sure where and what business he will get into, but it will happen soon. In St. Louis, he saw a mutual friend, who looked fine as...

GLC02178.10

to Amos J. Harding

Does not feel much like writing this afternoon but remembered his obligation and will say a few words. Arrived at St. Louis one week ago this morning (Thursday) at 3 o'clock. His company had been mustered out the day before. Panicked about getting...

GLC02178.11

to Amos J. Harding

Writes that Harding's kind and appreciated note on 17 September came today and he wants to reply quickly to Harding's kind sentiments. Writes that if he has been of service to Harding, which it was certainly in his power to be on the occasion that...

GLC02178.12

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes the letter while "comfortably loafing on hospital bed", waiting for surgery on a cyst. He tells Estelle that if her cousin joins the infantry and goes into active combat, he will have tremendous respect for him: "Truly the infantry is...

GLC09120.412

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes "hot & bothered", with "bandages sticking". Diamond expresses frustration about the fact that all press about the "work" that has been done in the South Pacific accredits all success to the "God damned marines."

GLC09120.413

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the experience of receiving surgery in the army hospital the day before.

GLC09120.414

to Estelle Spero

Diamond expresses frustration about being "shackled" to his hospital bed while recuperating. He describes a conversation that he had with his "cell mate" from New Zealand, who had been amazed "at American soldiers not getting the fullest...

GLC09120.415

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he was menat to go to the general hospital to have his surgery, but instead he had managed to persuade the doctor to operate on him in the line hospital. Had he been moved, he "would have left on a certain morning on a...

GLC09120.416

to Estelle Spero

Diamond jokingly complains about his doctor and the ward boy, and their treatment of him.

GLC09120.417

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that wherever she happens to be on her birthday, she should know that he will be thinking of her. He also writes that there is "nothing new to report from 'sick bay'".

GLC09120.418

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that there are rumors that some nurses may be sent to the army hospital. If this transpires to be true, he states that they will be the first white women that he has seen in seven months.

GLC09120.419

to Estelle Spero

Diamond responds to a number of Estelle's letters. Regarding "that hotel deal," he writes that he regrets not having had "those few moments free from fears of curious eyes, of parental scrutiny, - just to be alone -." He informs Estelle that once...

GLC09120.420

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he is still "sojourning at the 52nd Field Hospital." He then responds to a series of letters that he has just received. He relates an argument that he has had with "Bud", about the concerns of the soldiers overseas. He...

GLC09120.421

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes a short note informing Estelle that work has piled up, but that he is so happy that she is "the gal."

GLC09120.422

to Sidney Diamond

Letter thanking Diamond for his informing the magazine that the poem that they published in their April issue appears on a tombstone in the Bronx, and not Indiana as they claimed. Diamond then appends the letter with a short handwritten explanation...

GLC09120.423

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes his daily routine in the hospital.

GLC09120.424

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the other patients in the officers' ward of the hospital.

GLC09120.425