Elizabeth Parsons, blogger of “”All Things Paper” had an interesting post over the weekend. She writes of a box of letters that were passed on to her after her after her father passed away.
He commanded the 321 Field Artillery Battalion in France during WW I. The letters are from all over France in 1919. He wrote of the country side, the beautiful country villages and magnificent chateaus.
As commander of the Battalion, he stayed in the chateaus of the villages along with his staff. He wrote about a Romanian beauty he met in Paris, his soldiers who died in battle, the modern warfare of WWI…amazing letters that offer a slice of American and European History in a very personal way.
She also included a few pictures of those letters, one of which I have included here.
While her blog is not specifically about Ephemera, she touches on it quite regularly. I recommend you put her link in your blogroll.
I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the encore it deserves.
Tom
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