CEHBates_JanFeb1919_035a

Feb 7th 1919. 727 Paru Street.

My own darling

Since your cable came on Wednesday
announcing that you had
received the Croix de Guerre
with Palms. I have been in
such a frantically excited
frame of mind that it has
seemed impossible to write.
What I did write looked so
illegible that I was ashamed
of it — I tried to write to Nor
& Dick to tell them all
about it, but it was rather

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We were much interested in your account of meeting
friends in Paris!