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    Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, June 27, 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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Angers France
June 27, 1918

Dear Bess:
      Another banner day. Got four letters. Hooray! Also a box of candy from Paris on which it said it was sent by order of Miss Bess Wallace, Independence, Kansas City, MO. It was grand candy too and very much appreciated because candy is hard to get. I guess they sent the candy instead of the cake because cake is under the ban. All flour is used in bread. The candy was just as well and lasts a heap longer. I have been working as usual. The regimental school teacher along with Captain Patterson[40]. You should hear me hand these fellows fume and make them like it. It's rather funny for an old rube to be handing knowledge (of a sort) to the Harvard and Yale boys but it's happening now. The hardest work I ever did in my

     
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