Show e 1 A ph billip r S THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY dear ma well I 1 gess maybe I 1 will be to tossed ased into the guard house again or shot or put peeling more and I 1 dont know im witch is I 1 got one of them post cards from the sen wheeler first committee and what I 1 read in the newspapers about all the fuss being made about it makes me aw tul nervous only some good luck will save me I 1 wrote a note to the president li kethe senator asked me to saying I 1 was against getting into the european war 1 I did not say positively though and I 1 explained while I 1 was against it I 1 wood go peacefully if ordered a 4 a i but even this was wron wrong gand and only a letter I 1 just got from nellie petersen keeps me from a cervus breakdown it seems I 1 wrote a letter to nellie the same time I 1 wrote to washington and by mistake I 1 put the letter about not getting into the war in nellies envelope and sent to mr roosevelt the letter I 1 meant for nellie a this wood seem a good break I 1 gess but I 1 am not two sure how will the president know the letter he got just began my darling nellie and what will he think of a private calling his superior g name like that in the very first sentence of the letter witch he has it says remember member He all your promises to me my dear and what is to keep him from thinking I 1 arn am talking about the very promises mentioned on that wheeler post card he will not know I 1 am just talking about the promises nellie petersen made to me about not dancing with sergeant mooney no more and about marrying me if I 1 ever get through kitchen police ju ties a a I 1 think that the letter witch I 1 sent to president roosevelt by mistake also says I 1 am holding him to every promise he made last year witch means nellies promises about always being true to me and not the presidents campaign promises but he will not know this I 1 am afraid I 1 think I 1 closed this letter with a line like 1 I am very serious about this honey bunch and if you go back on your word and try to two time me in any way I 1 will take no nonsense you can see what a fix I 1 am in ma every time I 1 see an officer coming my way I 1 think general marsh marshall all his has sent for me I 1 am in bad with nellie two on account of she does not know what to make of the letter witch she got from me and witch was meant for the president she says that I 1 am a louse for ever writing it in the first place every time I 1 have seen nellie I 1 have told her I 1 was every inch a fighting man and that war held no terrors for me no matter whether it was on home grounds or where so 0 I 1 look pretty foolish to her writing a letter to the president that I 1 am against any war that takes me far away from home 0 come what may ay ma I 1 am in m a tough spot and I 1 feel two worried to write more now except to close saying I 1 love you like always your loving son oscar ima dodo wants to do her part in the V campaign so she is wearing a V neck sweater TWEET TWEET the st george hotel at bermuda is now occupied by the U S engineers corps the picturesque anve rurie is occupied by the british contraband control the bermudian and princess have been taken over by the censorship bureau and the elbow beach hotel will soon be occupied by U S navy officials A good regulation honeymoon in that country seems pretty difficult just now |