Bates_B2278_F1_270

It is written by a student who went
into the fight -- and it is very
illuminating as regards the life [illegible]
so it is intensely interesting to those
who have loved ones at the front
as we [underlined] have!

I wish I could sent it you dearest
but books are Taboo I believe . . ---
So is nearly everything else except
letters & papers ---

The paper today says Lieut A. G. & Ms
Hatch who are in Washington are
being congratulated in the birth
of a son! We had seen nothing
of Hatch for some weeks --- & though