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Walter H. Fox correspondence September-October 1918
1918-10-12 Page 1
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Oct. 12 1918 My Dearest Bess: I received your letters today the last one dated the 11th Sept. They may come in any order but I was surely glad to get them. It seems so many miles away that it would take more than a month to get them here. I think the impression of the ocean is that of almost infinite power. I stood near the rail at night and the thought would always come. One move and out into the waves one would go and swallow up all of a person. It is the vastness of it that appalls one. One of those big ships simply tossed like a cork. Yes I think that one could talk for a long time about even the enormous preparations in the U S
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Oct. 12 1918 My Dearest Bess: I received your letters today the last one dated the 11th Sept. They may come in any order but I was surely glad to get them. It seems so many miles away that it would take more than a month to get them here. I think the impression of the ocean is that of almost infinite power. I stood near the rail at night and the thought would always come. One move and out into the waves one would go and swallow up all of a person. It is the vastness of it that appalls one. One of those big ships simply tossed like a cork. Yes I think that one could talk for a long time about even the enormous preparations in the U S
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