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Date: April 4th 1917
To
Mary (wife) & Fred & Agnes
From
Roy Gullen
Letter

France Apr/4/17

Dear Mary & Fred & Agnes

I received your letters O.K. last night so glad to receive them we are in it hot & fierce will try & put a few lines in this for you all. try & get a little store or buisness to keep the kiddies out of other peoples hands untill they get working for them selves do this, if I do not come home parcels do not come that Mother wrote about. Marys candle is a dandy in here & thoes candies the kissies the kiddies helpt make were the best I ever tasted & that great cake & good letters I got Agnes's book while in the H it was O.K. was fine so glad to get things don't for get keep the kiddies good for all time remember this be wise about there different natures live with them talk to them about all nature in a wise way & know what they are before they get full grown & bring them up in the right way with them knowing its nature is very tricky you do not want to forget or over look what I say at this time or this talk my pen does not do well I got Agnes's dandy letter last night & Mary's of Mar 15 wish she would say which letters she got of mine but she may have writen some that I have not received last night we had a bad time will take better care now glad we are giving fritz no chance now. they are not any good. Mary's letter was just the kind of news I like to get (ah) no chance to write in here

Write about what you things you get from me. will be out again for a day or so & then in. then I will write. the walking is the worst this trip. have a cold well will close with love & kisses
Yours dad Roy
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