Dear Mama,

                      I am feeling fine but, am still in the Hospital awaiting my orders. Don’t know when I will leave here as I have not heard a thing from Washington, as yet.

                     You know I told you about my talk with mr Mosly and what he advised me to do. Wish you would write to me you and Aunt Annie opinion on the subject, about popas, you had as well write to me here if I leave before the mail reaches me it will be forwarded to me How is grandmama getting along, and are all of the rest of you well. will write more the next time, write at once to you your loving son at the below address

 

Ensign Ford K Lucus

St. Vinceus[1] Hospital

11st. and 7 ave.

New York

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[1] Spelled St. Vincent’s, this was a Catholic Medical Center in New York that opened in 1849 and closed in 2010.

*Unsure of the exact date of when this letter was written. From the envelope there is a date of February 6, 1919.