FWF TO EEI 07291918

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FWF TO EEI 07291918

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Mon. July 29 1918

My Dear -

It is an age since I have written to you. A week at least. I am not even sure if I sent you the note I wrote the day I received my brevet, and that was the 20th of July. If I didn't (I seem to remember forgetting to mail it) I tell you now that I completed my last triangle without accident on the 19th of July received my brevet and put on my wings on the 20th. It took all day getting my papers made out and straightening up accounts, and I arrived in Paris at eleven that night. From then till today I scarcely know where my time went. Every morning I had chocolate and bread and butter in bed - another young lieut., Jimmy [Lounsburg?], was with me and by the time we had shaved and bathed leisurely it was time to go out to dejeuner. Sometimes we ate at the YMCA Hotel for officers, Table d' Hotel for 5 francs. Sometimes at a little elite American restaurant where real American food can be had, but seldom for less than ten or fifteen francs each. One of our meals cost us 45 francs for two. In the afternoon we stopped, promenaded in the Bois de Bologne or Rue de Rivoli or

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Champs Elysees, then dinner and a theatre. The talk of the fear of Parisians for Boch raids is false. Life is going on just the same. The same gay, carefree people, the same taxi crowded streets, the same light revues at the theatres. One night we saw "Molluscs" at a little English theatre, a "typical" English play with a purpose and all the skeleton of the play evident. An all - English crowd. It was like going into a different part of the world. I sent you another little fan [there?] the magazin at which I bot it. You [may?] have one; but they are so chic and useful that I want to be sure. Also I sent home all my films and pictures by American Express. It may be considerable of a chance to take, but - - And then, the first thing I knew, my permission was over and I was on the train to Avord for Sopwith or Nieuport training. This is a stupendously large centre. Planes of every description are used and are flying night and day. All fields are pretty well crowded with Frenchmen and Americans, too, so that it may be several days before I get to flying.

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I received your letter about your trip to Portland. What a nerveracking time you had, poor child! And do you know the Beaver was the boat I took to Portland one year when I went to Montana for the summer. 1910. How I hope that you are liking your cruise! And I had some pictures taken, too, in Paris, and when they are finished I shall send you one (of course!). I am enclosing this time one of the proofs of one that I am not having finished. I am hoping to hear from you in a couple of days. I must write to the folks. Goodbye, Dear, and bonne santi and bonne chance.

With infinite love

Wynne

J.W. Janis Second Lieut, ASSRC

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