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First letter that we have from France, written two months after the departure from Hoboken. The location in France of course is top secret.
He is exasperated by the failure of people to answer his letters, and especially his loving mother for whom he has some unusually sharp words, though signing ?I am as ever your loving son.?
1.	Esther and Sylvest. Cousins on his mother?s side.
2.	Poss. Justus the ?baby? brother.
3.	Ed, Gerald. Brothers in the service. He had not heard from them either.
4.	Sis. Sister Edith has not answered his letter.
5.	Eso? Perhaps Eva Barnes, a close friend of sister Edith.
6.	Sam. Sam Me Neely, Edith?s husband, Buzzy?s brother -in-law.
There is a mysterious note on the reverse of the envelope. ?My memory
haunts me Rebecca wants me so come back to (illegible)