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Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 17, 1917 [likely misdated and should be 1918]. Discusses moving to a new location in France, described as "quite a jump and now I am at last at the front of the advance." A small…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 1918. Discusses personal and social news. Two handwritten pages with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 2, 1918. Notes arrival in a small unidentified town in France, describes lodgings and culinary style, advises that he will be numbering letters from now on to help determine if Carl…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 21, 1918. Discusses various personal and social news and mentions that he has been almost all over France now. Three handwritten pages on Young Men's Christian Association…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 4, 1918. Discusses shopping trip in town, use of French language to get by, a visit to the YMCA, and personal regards. Two handwritten pages with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 6, 1918. Discusses arrival of delayed mail, taking his men for a ten-mile hike, and various personal news. Four handwritten pages with envelope.

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, January 7, 1919. Discusses social life in Koblenz (Germany): "Get up at 8am have a wonderful breakfast then go to the field until noon. After lunch get a good cigar and the paper in a quiet…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, July 11, 1918. Includes a clipping taken from the "Paris Herald" about two men from his squadron, Benjamin P. Harwood and Fred L. Luhr, who narrowly escaped a German attack; the clipping…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, July 17, 1918. Discusses frequent bombings of their area and writes, "I had to take one of our Lieuts over to one of the evacuation hospitals yesterday and I never had the full horror of…

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, July 20, 1918. Discusses various personal and social news. One folded sheet, four handwritten pages.