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travel is difficult and wearing in the extreme, since Living is exhorbitant [[exorbitant]] it costs every time one turns around food is very high, and rent!——  $10- a day for anything that is at all desirable. However we have to make the best of things, and take things as they come along. And an other thing has come my way - most unexpectedlly, nothing less than an invitation from the French war office to [[?]] Johnson & myself to make a trip in a Gov. automobile to Rhems [[Reims]] - and all the battle fields in that district! including I hope Le Catelet and "Jerry" territory - a two or three days trip! Isn't this an 

Transcription Notes:
* Le Catelet–Nauroy Line - Battle of St Quentin Canal