War Letters of Kiffin Yates Rockwell

March 11, 1915

Post Card 2ème Étranger, March 11, 1915. Received your letter the other day. I might as well stay where I am; get along pretty well, although local condi­tions are bad. The third section has been having trouble with the Mitrailleuse section, and we are practically...

March 7, 1915

To the Vicomtesse du Peloux 2ème Régiment Étranger, March 7, 1915. My dear Madame: I received your letter and appreciate it very much. The package has not yet arrived but suppose it will be waiting for me when I go back from the trenches this time. The time it takes...

February 28, 1915

Feb. 28, 1915. Dear Paul: Received your letter yesterday, got the fifty francs; the package announced hasn’t arrived yet. Spent six days on petit poste in an open trench close enough to hear the Germans talking. On guard all night. In the daytime, would slip down...

February 16, 1915 – Dear Sir

To the Vicomte du Peloux 2ème Régiment Étranger, Bon C. 1ère Cie., 3ème Son., Feb. 16, 1915. Dear Sir: I received your letter four days ago, for which I thank you very much. I am well and getting along fine and have no right to com­plain of anything. I came back last...

February 16, 1915 – Dear Paul

2ème Régiment Étranger, Bon C. 1ère Cie., Feb. 16, 1915. Dear Paul: I would have written you earlier but I have been either too busy, too disgusted, or too uncomfortable. The last four days we have been at a reserve post, the first since you left, and they were four...

February 8, 1915

Feb. 8, 1915. Dear Mamma: Little to write, just the same old life. Came back last night from four days at one of our most advanced positions here. The English in the Legion left for the English Army about a week ago. I could have gone but decided at the last minute...