EDWARD MARCELLUS was a clerk stationed
in German camps overtaken by the Allies. After receiving
handwritten expressions of affection from his wife at
home, he would type succinct, sometimes
teasing remarks directly on her letters and then return
them to her, creating a unique epistolary system. Get
transcript
Soldiers being mustered out at Camp Dix, NJ, 1918 (Courtesy
of the National Archives and Records Administration, ARC
# 533636)