Part 32 (1/2)
RICHARD
October 24
MY DEAR DAUGHTER:
So many weeks have passed since I saw you that by now you are able to read this without yourwords I have six sets of pictures of you Every day I take thelass frae Also, I have all the sweet fruits and chocolates and red bananas How good of you to think of just the things your father likes Soirl I play with the They have no mother like you, OF COURSE; they have no mother like YOURS--for except , so tender, so unselfish and thoughtful If she is reading this, kiss her for me These little children have a little father He dresses them and bathes them hihs and shi+vers His children and I play hide-and-seek, and, as you will know soame there is no such place as a steamer, with boats and ventilators andbehind the rocks and trees and rose bushes Every day I watch the sun set, and know that you and your prettyit, too And all day I think of you both
Be very good Do not bump yourself Do not eat et your dad Sleep when your mother wishes it Love us both Try to knoe love you THAT you will never learn Good-night and God keep you, and bless you
YOUR DAD
PARIS, Nove” day, and I feel like ---- censored word, at the thought of your having the e by yourself I can picture Barney and Burke loading, and unloading, and coal and wood being stored, and provisions and ice, and finally Hope brought down to take her third--no--fourth motor ride And God will see she makes it all safely, and that in her new house you are coht I drea drea happened today that you will like to hear When the war caht
The wives and children had nothing to live on So, the Aanized a relief league The Beaux Arts is in a most wonderful palace built by Cardinal Richelieu and decorated later by Napoleon In this they were gathering socks, asphyxiatingpostcards for fifty cents apiece The ” theave them soo far, without , I said, ”I'll be back toet so” This is the part that is eave a cheer and a yell just as though I had said, ”Peace is declared” or ”I will give you Carnegie's fortune” And they danced around, and shook hands, and Whitney Warren, who is at the head of it, all but cried Later, he told me the letter I had written for his wife's fund for orphans by the war had brought in 5000, that hy they were so pleased So we, you and I, will try to look at it that way, and try to believe that froet some benefit Tomorrow, I aoing to try tothat will draw money from America for the French hospitals If he will only ask, I know our people will give In a day or two, I think I will be allowed to see so The Ti husband is lonely for you, and so it will be always
RICHARD
November 17th
DEAR SWEETHEART:
My last letter was such a co me to decide as best for the papers, ht to be madder, for I have been to the trenches outside of Rheine; and, had they not deviled the spirit out of me with cables, I believe I could have written such a lot of stories of France that no one else has had the opportunity to write Believe me no one has yet told the story of the trench war Anyway, in spite of all the photographs and articles, to iven carte blanche to see whatever I wished I saw everything, but it would not be possible to write of it yet It onderful I was in the three lines, reaching the FIRST line by ht No one spoke above a whisper The Germans were only 300 to 400 yards distant But worst of all were the rats They ran over ht more afraid of them than the Germans I saw the Cathedral, and the only hotel open (from which I sent you and Hope a postal) was the sao I had sent the hotel reat welcoave me a room with a fire in it, and so I arm for the first ti it SNOWED On my way back to Paris, I stopped to tell the General what I had seen and to thank hi When you return, I will take you outto carry a rat-trap, and two terriers on a leash Tonight, when I got back, there was a letter fro, but there was a photo of Her, andis so beautiful as my child?
How fat, and wonderful, and dear, and lovable, and how terribly I want to hold her as I a her in the picture, and how much better as I really don't need my left arm to hold such a mite), if I had you close to me in it I miss you so, and love you so! I told Wheeler before I left as I was not going to waste tio to Servia So, as soon as I arrived, I was fretted with cables to go
I cabled to stop giving me advice, that I had a much better chance in France than anyone could have anywhere else Maybe, before I arrive, the Greeks will have joined the Germans, in which case, I WON'T LEAVE THE shi+P I'll coht back on her to the Allies
RICHARD
November 20th
This is the way Hope's cat looks, ”My whiskers!” she says, ”I never kneas to be let in for anything like this!” When I told her about the big rats in the trenches she wanted to go with me next time, but, today when I told her that the Crown Prince of Servia er Crown Prince), she looked just as she does in the picture ”Then, what do _I_ eat in Servia?” she said, and I told her both of us would live on goat's lad when I tell you I have been, warm We came pretty far south in two days, and, the da happened An English officer and I got talking and he was press censor at Salonica where I a after Athens I asked him to look over the many letters I had and telladdressed to pro-Gerht anyway I'll vouch for him, because this letter is addressed to me”
SEE THE CAT!
HOPE GAVE THE CAT TO HER DAD
IS THE CAT SAD?
YES IS THE DAD SAD?