Encoded for for the Veterans History Project, January 18, 2017.
All letters in the McNutt collection were digitized.
The following letters were transcribed from the handwritten originals by the donor. No alterations to this transcription has been made, although spelling errors are indicated with [sic]. Any special emphasis (i.e. underlining) is presented *between asterisks*.
I am now laying in the harbor at Halifax and am very much disappointed as we won't bet any liberty and I wanted to go ashore and see what the place looked like but maybe will get a chance again. We leave tomorrow in a convoy for France
and I guess I will be there by the time you get his letter. They say the French girls are very beautiful but I don't know about that and will see later. If they are I will kidnap one just before we sail and bring her back to the States.
We had some thrilling journey. After we were at sea four days a storm caught us and lasted two days and came very near driving us to pieces on the breakers but escaped them by a fraction. We were driven about two hundred miles off of our course and think we must have been up around Greenland for it was about forty below zero and we like to have frozen. It is snowing to beat the devil now and cold as thunder up here. I didn't get sea sick but got a little dizzy a few times. She sure did do some rolling and pitching. The largest portion of the crew got sick sure did hang over the life lines and feed the
fishes. I haven't much time and will have to buckle down and get on the job. You can see I am in an awful hurry by this writing. Will write again as soon as I get in France if such should be my good luck. We didn't see a sign of a sub, but little good would as we haven't any guns mounted.
Say Myrtle when you write to sis please tell her not the get sore because I didn't write to her but the sailor I am mailing this with is leaving I won't be able to write but will later.
With much love,