Letter From France
Dinard, France
March 6, 1919
My dear Sam:
We are at last seeing some of the beautiful parts of France.
We are stopping in St. Mals on a weeks leave. Blair, Fess, Leroy and I are all
together. I am now in Dinard, a very swell summer resort across the river from
St. Maleo. This is whee the wealthy French have their summer homes. I have
never seen a more beautiful place in all my life, as Mary Wilson said once when
she was in Wilson. I am having so much fun their ain’t no name for it.
We have no expense except what we make. We are at a swell
hotel, Chateaubriand, right on the water front. Blair and I are rooming
together and have a bed each. We had an awful time trying to go to sleep the
first night. We hadn’t slept between sheets in so long we considered taking our
cover and sleeping on the floor. Another joke on us.
We had heard that these
people believed in light breakfast but didn’t realize it ‘till the first morn
here. We went in and sat down for breakfast and noticed there was coffee,
butter, and bread already there so we sat and waited and waited for breakfast
and finally I told the waitress to hurry with breakfast and she laughed and
said that’s all the breakfast we serve.
The most historic place we have visited so far is Mont St.
Miehel. The Y.M.C.A. took us there on an excursion Tuesday. There is so much
history attached to all these places I dare not try to tell you ‘till I see
you. I am at present sitting in the writing room of the High Life Casino that
Harry K. Thaw met his wife, he also won and lost this place in one night. I am
enclosing a post card picture of same.
We have seen quite a number of towns and cities since
leaving Brest. We have danced every day and night since being here. We are
waiting now for a 35-piece band to play for a dance at 2:30. Night before last
we had a swell concert by Miss Rita Goould of New York. She said she was the
black sheep of the Gould family of N.Y. After the concert she attended our
dance and I had the pleasure of drinking a hot chocolate with her. I have met a
bunch of nice French girls here. They are allowed to attend the dances and they
all come. We have met girls from Great Britain, England and Russia. Most of
them speak very good English.
I can sit here and see St. Malo, Dinard, St. Servan and
Poranne, all are very good sized towns. I can also watch the French promenade
and see the tide go out. Two soldiers are trying the surf but I think it rather
cool yet.
I’ll write you all about my trip when I get back to Brest.
Hope you are all well. Blair has just come for me to go with them to some
place.
Love from us all,
Joe Nash
High Life Casino, Dinard, France. This isn't the postcard Joe Nash sent.
The newspaper had no photo with the article.
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