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Telegram from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, December 27, 1917. Read: "Safe love. Wilbur." One typed page with envelope.
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, March 21, 1918. Discusses various personal and social news. One typed page on American Expeditionary Forces stationery with envelope.
Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, April 1918. Discusses various social and personal news. Three handwritten pages with envelope.
Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, October 19, 1918. Discusses personal and social news. Four handwritten pages with envelope.
Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, September 24, 1918. Discusses personal and social news. Four handwritten pages with envelope.
Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, December 3, 1917. Advises that he received orders tonight to pack up all things and be ready to go at a moment's notice. "I don't know where I am going but I am on the way." Mentions sending a piece of his officer hat cord to her, as well as making an arrangement to have his insignia sent to her if anything happens to me. Includes…
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 area has been carefully removed from letter by Wilbur, who notes he had written something he should not have shared. Two handwritten pages with…
Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, May 17, 1918. Acknowledges receipt of letters and says he “took them to Germany with me. Went over in a formation and I can say now I've been baptized with German fire. Coming home tonight as I crossed the lines a bunch of archies bracketed me, like this [includes a doodle of center plane being surrounded by other planes]. I had a hard…
Letter from Wilbur D. Kennedy to Carmelite (Miller) Kennedy, June 9, [1918]. Notes that he included a clipping sent to him from his mother and that the two men who fatally crashed in the Toul (France) region were the first losses of their squadron. Advises to obtain a copy of "Collier's Weekly," April 12, 1918, Volume 61 and read pages 16-18 for details on what he has been doing. Also includes…