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delayed because he puts only 3 cent stamps on them, and then over here follows much red tape in getting them, fines etc. and 40 centimes extra postage. You see I am not in the A.E.F. 
and 3 cents don't go, but it is not the extra postage that counts but the delay.

I have had no notices about the Portrait project over here, except the brief one in Boston paper. And I was so in hopes you would keep tabs on them, and send them to me, as it is I am more in the dark than the average reader in the U.S. and so it goes, and no wonder I get blue, but the sun will come out, and probably a bunch of letters will come with it then things will look different.

I have not had a chance to go to Namur yet  had to be on the spot, in case a summons came from the King — but he is away now for 10 days so I will try to run up there, I was looking over addresses last night, supposed Tina Berg - Jerry's nurse was in 

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evenings and so it is deadly lonesome, and I long to get back to you, and dear old Lovell, and to see all the children again.

I am doing my best to keep well, but it is a cold trecherous climate, but how can I complain when I think of what our boys must have suffered in the cold wet camps & trenches! And then to make things worse I get letters only at long intervals, - from no one of course except you at home and so few of those, I suppose you write them but there seem to be such deadly delays,  Just think two months since I left, and I have not had one word in answer to a single letter I have written, except my steamer letter, and the first postal from Paris — It does not seem credible - Jerry's letters are 

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Have only been to the theatre once, and about 20 minutes to a movie — Can't seem to work up any inclination to go to any place, and the Cafes are a deadly bore. I just wait for [[underline]]tomorrow[[/underline]].

Transcription Notes:
* A.E.F. - American Expeditionary Forces, possibly * Namur - town in Belgium * 'steamer letter' - sent while crossing over