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    Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, July 14, 1918. Family, Business, and Personal Affairs File, Truman Papers.


Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace
     


Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace

 

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Somewhere in France
July 14, 1918

Dear Bess:
      I wrote you several letters from the last town I was in and told you how I came back to the regiment, am a Captain and a lot of things like that. Now some other censor has decided that we should not have mentioned places and I am much afraid all that mail is destroyed. Some day they will get the things all straightened out.
      Your letters of the 14th and 19th of June were here at camp when I arrived and you may be sure I am most happy to get them. You couldn't possibly write me a silly letter. I am disappointed that you should think of tearing up one they are so very valuable. We work like thunder and cuss the things we have to do sometimes especially when some chippie whose [sic] been to school since the war began and has

     
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