France
July 26th 1918

Dear Mother -

I hav'nt had a letter from you for some time so I though I would drop you a few lines to let you know I am getting along alright I had a pretty bat cold from sleeping In a damp dug-out but I am over It now I suppose you are having fine weather over there Will soon be at the harvest We are having little rain storms every day but Just enough to freshen the Air How Is Dad getting on he has'nt Wrote me for some time tell him to write often as I can write better when I get a letter then when I don't although I don t make much of It at any time but I d

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