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Solon H Borglum
Y.M.CA [[?]] EF.

Mrs Solon H Gorglum
Sept 5
Norwalk Conn
No 14.

LE FOYER DU SOLDAT
Union Franco-Américaine

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Y.M.C.A.
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le Dear Emma & children
your letter of July 18 was recived just last week and was mighty glad to hear from you, so you have your hay in and the corn is growing faster than you can run, that is fine. You will have corn to eat if no  potatoes and monica you are getting to be quite a buisness girl & making a little on lots of money. I am very glad that every thing around you is going on well if you do not get your mony regular from the Y write to them and find out what is the mater they have been very prompt here every one is doing the best they know how the last few days we have had a grate many moving troop again so we have had hardely time to take  a walk even to chang our work the news is grate is it not I beleave we get more dirict detail of the fighting then you do but that is only neer where we are we must get the rest along the line other places from the Papers. The Fritzes are surely
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on the run I have seen grate [[quentat?]] much of the animition & guns they had to leave behind in this section and on the battlefield and many provisions by the thousand. it would take up to much time to kill them off I guess. The other day Jim and I went to a town about 40 kilomenetors from here to get our trunks where we had left them with all the things we did not need we sent them to this [[thace?]] and we will leave them here when we make the next move with our army which will be soon I think from now on we will be with the tent army the line has been moving so little for so long that there was a chance in most cases  to erect permenent building for Foyers but now that the line is moving forward we will have to move on weels  or foot. Well when we got our trunks off we got a [[strikethrough]] cast ti [[/strikethrough]]auto car to take us back but it  only went about Half way we started of to walk and abut 7 kilomenetors from Chotou Terry [[Château-Thierry]], Jim played out so we found an old ruined farm