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    "title": "Letter from Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace",
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        "Family Correspondence Files"
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        "Truman, Martha Ellen, 1852-1947",
        "Wallace, George Porterfield, 1892-1963",
        "Higinbotham, John J., 1898-1957",
        "Truman, Mary Jane, 1889-1978",
        "Gates, George Porterfield, 1835-1918",
        "Wallace, Madge Gates, 1862-1952",
        "Wallace, Fred, 1900-1957",
        "Gates, Elizabeth Emery, 1841-1924",
        "Soldiers",
        "World War, 1914-1918"
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    "ocrText": "Somewhere in France\nDear Bess :-\nJuly 22 1918\nThis is a farmer day Sure\nenough I have your letter of\nJuly dea / talling of youn grand fa theis\nprobably hase to day off to\nth anking that I would\nread your letter. I have read it\nare and once. It is certainly\na grand day when letters come.\nHain most antually sorry to head\nsome thing that me can't help and\nof you grand fathers death but itis\nway me can. hope your mother\nthat me an only accept the best\nfor cousins. picture of you and your\nis well the by this time looking\nThe Star is rather parmative in\non the front It is like mark Twain\nits of our arrival\nentegerated. We are further from the\nsaid about his death, it is greatly\nfrontmour Chan when me sere\nCamp Doniphan. We get up at 5am\nlat school. This place is justike\ngo out and fine like SaraHill\nafternoon next and put in the\nall maining one neek and all\nrest of the day drilling the Bettery\nIam now a Battery Consmander\nItold you in my last letter Wast\nThey gam me u Battery that was\nalways in troutle and in had but\nmak. hopel to make a reputation\nme carried I off alt the credits this\nfor my self if the cards fall cight\nand I don A get mounded or some\nthing. It is the Insh fathery I\nto put an O in front of my name\nand the adjustant has decided\nto make me right key seem\nto mant to soldier for me and if\nI ean get their to do it Ishall can-\nrider that I have made the great\nest success there is to make.\nIf fail it il he a great failure\ntoo That's always the case though The men are as\nhase feen lax in dicipline. you Imagine me\nfine a funch as were ever Can gotten together but they\nbeing a hand foiled captain of a tough Drish The fattery\nI started things in a rough cookie photion servy\ngoternything Insas capath of giving Do Itook anious the Lattery to\nfrist man was up before me for a lack of diaphine\nfine next day and they may\ngot the buck ague and simply bleir up\nplease me and five good that one of my gunnars had to\ntake him out When I talked So him about it he\nesca call him down, Talf george that little Higgin- the\nalmost next and I felt so parry for him Ididuit\nfothern is one of my strotin men. He pulls\nwas nt set solidly on the ground and as he has\nother day if seally him off. The thing\nharnmer on Not gun and and he sure rides it. The\nthe gun he instited reach on riding the it every time because\nto pull the hammer from the right hand side of\nif was easier to Jangard\ndated Jrine ceatainly 27 wish telling Icquid of Phase your prandlathers present to he\nday and another letter of yours just death\nmost sincerely that your mother is entirely nell by\nof assistance in any may Icauld hase. Iain hopin\nthis fine. Please don't wany afaut merand provide\nyou to he proud of me I and I hope you'll not Land have\nI'll mark so hard that of your either. want\nmark hoth mentally and physically caunt\nashamed because don it good. If\nMin. some The thing young afout second the artillery hints seem from to the think May they I know ask\nme questions. Idon't Know if I do or not but am\ngoing The to 35th know is before on the the front Mar is fat ore. ise are not with\ntheir nan will the he for some\nbeing We are fruther from the\ntime So there don't you mony aboutom\nfront than me have been since the\nlanded except the first week. Itis\nonly about a day I Larse back wide\nto the point when the great Cardinal\nresured his famous Edit against the\nSo see me are for from the\nHugonoto (Idont Know how to spellend\nare anxious to get to it of Ican\nalthough most of us\nthe as perfectly as they put\nonly get my fattery to puts shells on\nwill make onsebes felt.\non target Iam sine we\nIam very glad may + Manuma\nsent Howey to your grandfathers frank\nbecause I would have done It i/J'd\nis welland can California\nbeen there. Ihope your grandmather\nwould he a my grand place to\ntip. I don of imagine that Cohuntia\nspend the minter atthough I Lope\nknow Fred there ficause Inesen\nhey saluable a une-\nrestry education is mutil now,\nesca if I and help Slag a shut\nI was a of Robers Barber\nup the chappies by telling their that\ncollege at arti llery School\nmeant Tonic Fraterity\nfelong to the I T.F. which\nand me never heard any more cat\nlege yells at that school\ntime the Camaa posteard stord of me the next stain. neek if\nThin going to send you a pic\nDain Please keep writing and remember\nyours Harry. always\nHany Harman\nCapt. 129 american F.a. Comdy Poty D.\nCapt\n7-24-18\nhmerican E.F.\nFiild antillery\nJUL Officers Thail\n2PM\nmiss Bess Wallace\n219 Deleware St\nOK Ha A.E.A. PASSEDAS CENT\nInde pen dence mo\nusa"
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