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Tue. Noon,
May 14.
Honey:-
Your letter addressed
to me at the Hospital reached
me just now and believe
me I was glad to get it
I’ll say. First one of yours
that has reached me since
the one your wrote a week
ago Sunday. I sure have
been missing them more
that I can say. Its a long
time since I have been a
whole week without either
seeing, or hearing from you.
In fact since I left Holyoke
to work for Robertson I have
not been that long and I have
gotten a pretty good idea of

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Edward Wirt was conscripted into the army in May of 1918. He was sent to Camp Devens in Ayers, Massachusetts, one of the sixteen training camps set up to instruct "National Army" troops and the only one in New England. (The National Army was the terminology used to designate units composed mostly of draftees.) There, he was assigned to the 76th Infantry Division, known as the "Liberty Bell" division for its unit symbol. The 76th had been forming at Camp Devens since September, 1917, but it had not yet gotten up to strength because of regular borrowings of troops by other, better trained, and equipped units. It was made up almost entirely of troops from New England. Apparently one of the first things that happened to Wirt was that he injured his ankle and he wrote this letter from the hospital. Edward Wirt was a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. His fiancée, Emily Gladys Bartlett, was born in Holyoke, Mass.

There are ninety letters from Mr. Wirt to Miss Bartlett in the PVMA collection; twelve of them are reproduced here.

 

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WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett

author   Edward Roswell Wirt (1891-1942)
date   May 14, 1918
location   Lowell, Massachusetts
width   5.5"
height   9.0"
process/materials   manuscript, paper, ink
item type   Personal Documents/Letter
accession #   #L01.011


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