Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Jon Bouman to the Bouman Family

Bouman, Jon Anthony, 1873-1958

WWP23072

1919 October 18

Letter from Jon Bouman to his family.

Gift of William C. and Evelina Suhler

Correspondence

Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)

Rachel Dark

Denise Montgomery

Austin Shifflett

English

Evelina Suhler is the granddaughter of Jon Anthony Bouman and inherited the family collection of his letters from the years of World War I. She and her husband gave the letters to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum in 2013.

                                                                                                                        Saturday
Oct 18, 1919

                                                                        

Dearest,

           Just a line to accompany the monthly draft for £40 which I must get quickly before the banks close, as it is early closing for them, today. I am writing this at the hotel before going out, and the inkwells are of course almost dry.

            In the country yesterday – I sent a postcard to Bill. It was a glorious day, misty towards the end and quite a London fog on today; the smell is familiar.

            The other day I sent the children a roll containing a French picture book with puzzles which is a good way for them of learning French. Also an Alsace-Lorraine frieze which I saw at a paperhanger’s shop & which I liked; perhaps it will do for their room, over the mantelpiece.

            There is a strike of newspaper compositors, long may it continue!!!

 

            With love to all,
                        Thine
                Jack

Letter

Bouman Family