World War I Collection

Semper Fidelis Marine Corp. Logo United States Marines Quantico, Va. May 11, 1918

Dear Mother, Arrived here this morning and sure was glad to step off from the train as it was getting mighty tiresome. Was seven and a half days on the road and never got off from the train but 3 or 4 times on the way.

We passed through eleven states in all. Come by the valley route & stopped off in Los Angeles about fifteen minutes to limber up. Our next stop was in El Paso Texas. It is a quite a nice town according to my notion. The Red Cross passed out apples and post cards to us. There

a good place for us to break in so we have to jump to El Paso Texas and open there next Monday.

It's all rather sudden and I hardly realize that I'm booked for an extensive Vaudeville Tour.

Mr. Dan Kelly, who has been playing this sketch for a long time just