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1946 January 2 Cooper to Margarete Johnson
1946/01/02 at 3:22 am (Letters)
Tags: cooper, garner, invitation, jack, johnson, margarete, opie
Postmarked: Dallas, Texas 1946 Jan 2 12 -M
Miss Margarete Johnson 2834 Burger Dallas, TexasMiss Margarete Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Cooper request your presince (sic) Sunday, January the sixth in honor of their daughter, Opie Garner.
3 ’til 5
4419 Gilbert
Opie & Jack Jan 19
1945 Sep 19 Billie and Leslie to Margarete Johnson
1945/09/19 at 2:29 am (Letters)
Tags: billie, california, dallas, johnson, leslie, margarete, vacation
Postmarked: Glendale Calif. Sep 19 12 M 1945
Miss Margarete Johnson 2834 Burger St. Dallas TexasDear Margarete,
We are having a nice vacation out here in sunny Calif. which isn’t very sunny. Wish we could see you some time. We are coming back to Dallas in a few days now, so hope to see you then.
Love
Billie & Leslie
1944 November 29 Jim Simmons to Margarete Johnson
1944/11/29 at 12:56 am (Letters)
Tags: burgess, everett, family news, glynn, Irene, jim, johnson, killed, margarete, simmons
Postmarked: Winfield Kans. Nov 30 1944 11AM
S/Sgt. Jim W. Simmons 37066523 269th Bane Unit Section A3 Strather Field Winfield, Kansas Miss Margaret Johnson 2834 Burger Ave. Dallas (10) TexasWednesday Nov. 29. 44
Dear Miss Johnson,
No doubt you will be surprised to get a letter from me (a stranger) but you shouldn’t be, for I’ve been intending to write to you for ages. Glen (you have heard of him!?) sent me a picture of you this week. I had another picture of you, but he asked for it back. They are both good. You have a nice home, too. I have one of Glens pictures made in front of your home.
I guess you hear from him often? I get a letter from him about every week. He never says anything, but I guess theres nothing to write about from there. I could never write when I was over there and haven’t improved since I got back.
I have had it pretty lucky since I’ve been back. I have only been in Camp two weeks since August 18th, Most of it was emergency furlough, and I spent nearly all of it with my sis, Irene. I heard from her today, the first letter since I left there nearly two weeks ago. She is pretty sick, and seems to get worse all time. I worry about her because she doesn’t get the attention that she should, help is so scarce in the Sanitariam.
Glen tells me that you are wearing a ring, and hes awfully proud of it Margaret, and I’m glad for both of you. I hope he gets to come home soon. Next Spring anyway. He is lucky to be stationed in a safe place. It isn’t nice there at all but he is safe. We have that to be thankful for!
I got word yesterday that my cousin Everett Burgess was killed in the pacific Oct 25th. It hurts when it comes close to home, but its something that we have to face.
Margaret write to me sometime. I’m not much at writing but I do like to receive letters. I hope you can read this. I boast about writing as good or better than Glen for I can read mine, before it gets cold.
It’s cold here in Kansas, and it nearly kills me. I’m 100% Southern. Bye for now. A friend, Jim S.
1944 November 16 Maiten Gravier to Margarete Johnson
1944/11/16 at 4:23 am (Letters)
Tags: birthday, christmas, gravier, johnson, maiten, margarete, new year
Postmarked: Constantine R.R. Nov 16 16 11 44
Miss Margarete Johnson 2834 Burger Dallas Texas USA M Maiten Gravier 12 rue du 3c chasseurs Philippeville AlgerieThursday November 16th 1944
My dearest Margarete
I send you my most sincere wishes for a pleasant Christmas and a New Year filled with all joy and goodness, wishing you, too, a very happy birthday.
Best kisses,
Maiten
1944 October 17 Maiten Gravier to Margarete Johnson
1944/10/17 at 1:02 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: ambulance, constantine, corporal, engaged, glynn, gravier, johnson, maiten, malaria, margarete, philippeville, simmons, wwii
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Miss Margarete Johnson 2834 Burger Dallas Texas USA M. Gravier 12 rue de gc chasseirs Philippeville (Algerie)12 rue de 3c chasseurs
Philippeville
Tuesday October 17th 1944
My dear Margarete
Very many thanks for your most welcome letters of June 6th and 11th, which arrived here few days ago. I received first the letters of June 11th, so I was waiting for the other to answer.
I was surprised to know that you are engaged. I send you my sincere congratulations. I am very sorry I have not seen your fiance when he passed through Philippeville. I hope you have often news from him.
You told me that you sent his picture last year. I have one you sent me in November 1942 and you wrote me he is a corporal. Is he your fiance?
My work is in Constantine again. But now i have a good and nice automobile. I drive for officers but I don’t work as hard as when I was driving ambulance. Now I have stopped my work. I spent the last ten days in an hospital. I had Malaria. So now I am in Philippeville at rest. I shall stay here twenty days. My youngest brother is here too and my parents are very happy and we are, too. My two other brothers are in France but in good health. We have very often news from them.
Here the town is very quiet. So I stay all day long in my home, listening the radio, reading and somtimes I go to the pictures.
Well I must stop for now. I shall write you again before I left Philippeville.
Hoping to hear from you very soon.
Best Wishes.
Maiten
1944 February 26 Maiten Gravier to Margarete Johnson
1944/02/26 at 3:24 am (Letters)
Tags: ambulance, constantine, gravier, johnson, maiten, margarete, philippeville, wwii
Postmarked: Philippeville Constantine 8:60 28 – 2 44
Miss Margarete Johnson 2834 Burger Dallas Texas USA Miss Maiten Gravier 12 rue de 3c chasseurs Philippeville Algeria Maiten Gravier 12 rue du 3c chasseurs Philippeville AlgerieMy dear Margarete
I received in December your post card and also pictures of Texas. They are very beautiful and I think Dallas is a very nice town. Last time I wrote you, it was in november and I hope now you have received my letter. On the post card you told me that you will write soon. It was in october and I have not received it yet. Did you write or not? Maybe it is lost. When I wrote you last time I told you that I was working in Constantine. You know I am in the Army, volunteer. I am an ambulance driver and I like it. Now I am in Philippeville and I glad because I am with my parents. My three brothers are away but they are all right.
Well I must stop now. I hope this letter will find you and your family in good health, I also hope to receive a letter from you soon.
Your loving friend
Maiten
1943 November 6 Maiten Gravier to Margarete Johnson
1943/11/06 at 1:26 am (Letters)
Tags: ambulance, birthday, christmas, constantine, gravier, johnson, maiten, margarete, new year, philippeville, sailors, soldiers, victory, wwii
Postmarked: Philippeville Constantine 18* 8 – 11 43
Miss Margarete Johnson 2834 Burger Dallas Texas USA12 rue du 3c charseurs
Philippeville Algeria
6-11-43
My dear Margarete
There is a long time I did not hear from you. I wrote you five months ago and I hoped you received my letter.
You know certainly that I am in the Army since May. I am an Ambulance Driver. I work in Constantine, which is 87 kms far from here. But I don’t like this town. I prefer my Philippeville where I am now for some days at rest. I am very glad because I am with my parents and my friends. But often that I must leave them and I am very sorry of it.
Now I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. and also my best wishes for your birthday. I hope that this New Year will bring us Victory and the safe return of all our soldiers and sailors.
I hope you and your family are keeping well. A there does not seem to be anything more to write about, I will close with best wishes.
Ever yours,
Maiten
1943 August 2 Maiteny to Margarete Johnson
1943/08/02 at 3:00 am (Letters)
Tags: ambulance, constantine, johnson, Marengo, margarete, philippeville, wwii
Postmark: Aout 2 43 La Victoire Constantine
Miss Margarete Johnson 2834 Burger Dallas Texas USA M Maiten Gravier 12 rue de 8 & Chasseurs Philippeville ConstantineAugust 2nd 1943
My dear friend,
I was very happy last week, when I received your letter of May 9th.
Now I left Philippeville and I joined the army. I am a driver of ambulance. I left school in February. I am not very far from my family. Philippeville is 89 kilometers far from here. I saw the last time my mother and my father july 5th. I am very sorry because now I lost my English friends who were in Philippeville. Here I am almost alone. I have only a friend, I met in Marengo, a small village near Algiers where I learned how to drive. I staid (sic) two months in Marengo and now I am in Constantine. I do not know if I shall stay a long time here. Write me like before, in Philippeville, because when I receive your letter I shall be away certainly.
Now I am eighteen since June 20th. For my birthday I was in Marengo and this day seemed like the others.
Now I stop my letter, I must go to work. I hope you will write me very soon. All my kisses.
Yours ever
Maiteny
1943 July 26 H. Raffont to Dorothy Johnson
1943/07/26 at 2:14 am (Letters)
Tags: bombs, dorothy, funny, johnson, philippeville, wwii
Envelope: Postmarked Philippeville Constantine
To: Mademaiselle Dorothee Johnson 2834 Burger Street Dallas Texas USA From: miss H. Raffont 4 Rue de Paris Philippeville AlgeriePhilippeville 26 July 1943
Dear Dorothee
I must say that I am very surprised to have not received any letter from you since a lot of time. I suppose more than a year. I wrote you four times and….. no only one reply! I do not understand why. Have you had my letters? Have you an another address? Have you been ill? Are you married? Are you enlisted in the U. S. Army? What is the matter with you? Sincerely I do not understand this lack of news. I hope that you will receive this letter. If I do not get any answer, I will suppose that you do not want to write me any more and in this case I shall stop my correspondance.
I should have a lot of news to write you. Many events have been made since my last letter. But it is not usefull (sic) to write you them you know them as well as myself. My town have been bombed many times and our house have been surrounded by the bombs. Anyway we have not been afraid. Why would we be? If it is decided somewhere that we must dedd (sic) nobody can prevent it. (By dent or My aint) of live with Arabs, we have adopt their fatalism, and we say like them Mektoub that is to say in Arab: “that is written is written for ever”. The war is all right more and more every day. I wish I could be a boy to fight in the battle field. I am not and I am sorry of it.
I have many English and American friends and I know some who lived in your own town. I hope that you can understand me. My English have improved very much but I speak and write not so well than I understand. My friends can speak with me as quickly as they would speak with an American girl and often I can do some thing for there becoming an official enterpretor. Well I must stop now. I do not know even if my letter will go to your home. I wish I could. Do not forget to answer me, please.
God bless you and love you,
Your friend,
Hel(eiy)
