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    Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, October 11, 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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France, Oct 11, 1918

Dear Bess:
      Your good letter dated Sept. 9 and No. 19 came this morning. You undoubtedly are right in giving me the dickens for not writing oftener but my duties have been so strenuous and my work so hard in the last two months that I have hardly had a minute to call my own. If I'd written you every time I have thought of doing it, you'd get several every day.
      Since I have been at this rest cantonment I have written every day. But when we go back in, which will be shortly it will probably be another 30 days before I can write with any sense or regularity.
      I am awfully sorry Fred[55] is dissatisfied with the University and I hope that when he gets settled in the classes he will like it better. I sent one of my bright kids out of the battery to West Point yesterday. If he makes the grade on the
     

     
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