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Everett Jan 3, 1919

Dear Lucy
Will write to you in answer to Arthur's letter which we received yesterday, Harold is still in France in Base Hospital No 7th & we received a card on New Years morning saying that Charlie had arrived safely in New York. He came on the Mauratania, sister ship to the Lusitania. What do you think, but his troop ship was torpedoed by a U-boat on the way over from here,& arriving to the good training & the discipline of the men not one was last. They took

Transcription Notes:
The Lusitania and the Mauretania are sister ships, but here it looks like Mauretania was misspelled as Mauratania.