BESS TELLS HARRY TO HOLD ON TO HIS MONEY FOR A CAR
Independence, Missouri (JFK+50) On March 16, 1919, Bess Wallace wrote a letter to Captain Harry S Truman who was stationed in Le Mans, France and awaiting orders to sail back to the United States.
Bess wrote...
"You may invite the entire 35th Division to our wedding if you want to. I guess we might as well have the church full while we are at it."
She then commented on some of the things Harry wrote in a recent letter...
"What an experience the review must have been. Were you at all overcome at greeting the Prince of Wales?* He doesn't mean any more to me than the orniest doughboy."
Bess added...
"It was splendid that you got to shake hands with Pershing**."
She also reminded Harry that he needed to "hold on to the money" for the car that they would "surely need." Bess wrote...
"Most anything that will run on 4 wheels...(but) I'm scared to death of Fords."
*The Prince of Wales in 1919 became King Edward VIII in January 1936. He resigned in December 1936 & became the Duke of Windsor.
**General John J. Pershing was commander of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI.
SOURCE
"Letter from Bess Wallace to Harry S Truman, March 16, 1919", Bess W. Truman Papers, Harry S Truman Library and Museum, www.trumanlibrary.org/
Truman Wedding
219 N Delaware
Independence, MO
June 28, 1919
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