Encoded for for the Veterans History Project, January 30, 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 got your last letter yesterday and sure was glad to get it as I am afraid it will be the last one I will get for some time, but just the same I am going to write just as often as I can even if I can't get answer. I will write from the other side as soon as we get over and as often as I can while we are there. You must write all along and tell me all the news and about yourself and we
will hope that we have better luck getting our mail next time then we did last and I think we will alright. I will look forward all the time to getting back and reading your letters. I believe I told you before we got all our mail from New York did I not? I wrote you a long letter a few days ago and gave it to Walker to mail who was being transferred over to the receiving ships maybe he didn't get them mailed or got caught with them, but I hope he didn't for there was a lot of time in it. You know I have worried a lot since I wrote that letter about something I said in it that I had no business to say, but I am always doing something foolish and guess I will learn anything or any sense. I hope you won't feel hurt about it, but you won't will you? Please forget about it.
I sent you a picture yesterday and I think they both look fine and are real good but they don't look every much like me
and that is just the reason they look good because they don't favor me.
Well, we leave the yards tomorrow for some-where unknown. We haven't put any cargo on yet and don't know where we will get it yet. It will be at least a week or ten days before we go across. I wouldn't have time to receive any package before we leave but thanks many, many times for thinking of me. I get the altered card, but don't think that is your belief at all. I believe that married life is just what you make it. Don't forget to write when you can.
With a world of love,