[Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 20, 1918]

Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 20, 1918. Discusses social news, states how comfortable his after-work day is and is glad of no trench life for me. Notes that he is out of larkspur lotion for the cooties but that "the boys over here have discovered a damn good cure for them; pyrene fire extinguisher." Describes a couple of doughboys rubbing the spray from the fire extinguisher into skin. One folded sheet, four handwritten pages, with envelope.

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