September 3/16

Dear Dad, Mother + Carrie

               I will sure be glad when they can get the mails straightened out here so I can hear from home. I hope you get the letters I sent as soon as I arrived here.

               I wish you were all here to see the beautiful country around here every thing is beautifully antiquated. The flowers, grass etc. are wonderful. Stone walls and hedges are so old that moss and ivy almost cover them. The roads are just like pavement when you are walking you would swear you were on some lane they are so narrow. We have been to Godalming, Whitley and I cannot begin to describe them. Our camp is situated in the midst of a pine forest. We are in huts holding thirty men and they are certainly more comfortable than tents.

               We have had church service to-day and the farther we get along in military affairs the more impressive to us are these services. I guess a good many of us have been cowards.

               This is just a note to-day. We are feeling fine. I hope you are all well. It seems about 2 years instead of a little of 2 weeks that I have heard from you. Have written Mrs. Harding

               Hope the car is running good and that you are all having as good a time as we are.

                              Will write a book.