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    Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, April 28, 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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April 28, 1918

Dear Bess:
     
      The fourth Sunday after Easter and I am just now ready to go to a real Artillery School. Have had a splendid tour of the Atlantic Ocean and France. Have seen France as no civilian tour could possibly see it and now have a room with four of the most congenial first Lts in the regiment at an old Chateau with a beautiful garden a moat a fine park and a church with a chime clock and the most beautifully toned bell I ever heard. The hardships of this war are sure easy to bear so far.
      Major G.[18] and I took a walk yesterday afternoon and turned off on a road that said "Chemin Particulier." Neither of us knew what that was. Evidently it means private road, for we ran into another chateau. There was a man at the gate who invited us in and showed us a park with
     

     
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