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LE FOYER DU SOLDAT
Union Franco-Américaine

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[[logo]] Y.M.C.A. [[/logo]]

Solon H. Borglum
Y.M.C.A.   A.E.F.

Mrs. Solon H. Borglum
Norwalk Conn 


No 13. 

Aug 28.

Dear Emma + Children.

Well your letter of July 24 came yesterday after a long wait of almost a month. I was de-lighted to here [[hear]] all the little details about the work of each one and the farm. with Monica's living stable you ought to be making lots of money and when Mrs. Bl- pays up you surely will be in fine shape. [Evidently?] that must be a peach of [[strikethrough]an[[/strikethrough]] a handle you made Paul. and if you used a good [[strength?]] of graind [[grained]] wood it ought outlast any ten handles you could buy. it is to [[too]] bad the potatoes crop is a failure. But when we see how [[strikethrough]]things[[/strikethrough]] crops we have we should be quite glad with a fell. But it would have been nice to have a few to sell or give away. I have walked out in the country here, that is where there has been no fighting going on, and all the farms look fine. harvesting is about done now. and there is no danger of the Germans ever running or taking up new french territory again. what we miss very much here is fruit. I have wandered around apple orchards and old farm yards- not fruit of my kind. you can buy an apple an preserved of any kind cheaper on Fifth Avenue than you can in the country market here. the other day Jim was just getting over a sick spell. he though [[thought]] a mellon [[melon]] would tast [[taste]] good. I paid 4 Franks for one that you could stick in this Envolope, and have it well