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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