The Collection Battle Lines: Love Letters from the Front



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)


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