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[[image, top left corner]: The Art Institute of Chicago; Art: Theory, Practice, History]]

[[top right corner]:
Charles I. Hutchinson, President
Martin A. Ryerson,
Frank G. Logan, Vice Presidents
Ernest A. Hamill, Treasurer
Newton H. Carpenter, Business Manager
William F. Tuttle, Secretary
George W. Eggers, Director
Telephone Central 7080
Cable address "Arti Chicago"]]

Chicago, Ill.
March 21, 1919

Miss Alice Grandy
Dear little girl:
I think that Gae
got her letter a day ahead of you and
Helen this time because I mailed hers
yesterday and then could not find where I
had put yours. So here goes a brand new
one to take the place of the one that is lost.

I'm very, very busy these days so don't
get a chance to do as much writing as
I would like to do but I have found no girls
to take the place of my little Grandys.

We had a big carnival in the Art
Institute some time ago, which I wish you
could have seen. The best I can do is to
give you a program.

More of our boys are coming back
every day. We sent 428 and lost seventeen,
which was a pretty good showing for our
school, I think. At that, I do not think that
nearly all the names of the men we
sent are known. It is also doubtful
that the names of all the American dead
in the war will be known. There is a
cemetary six miles long at Verdun though
the French and British fill most of it.

Yesterday, I saw a troop train along side
of the track and the fellows crowded along
to get near home people again. Yet the
crowd was cold and paid little or no
attention to the men. And you could