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Phil Wood Letters
Feb. 21st, 2006 03:01 amI got a package from my uncle Ham in the mail today. Surprise surprise - it contained the collection of Phil Wood's letters that I'd asked for a few months ago.
They are absolutely incredible. I was in tears by the end. The letter that I originally learned was the end was not the last at all, by a long shot.
I'm going to try and transcribe them to my computer, editing the spelling mistakes in the typewritten versions as well as I can. The originals were written in longhand, and his sister by her own admission wasn't very good with a typewriter when she copied them over. There's a lot of references to his family that I don't understand, but for the most part they aren't too hard to figure out. I'm also going to post them here, hopefully managing one per day.
Luckily, his sister Gretchen is still alive. She's mentioned often in the letters and was his favorite correspondent... I hope I get a chance to interview her in the near future.
Since I'm on topic and feeling dedicated, I'm gonna do three tonight. Have a read and keep checking up on them - it's interesting noting the transformation of a law student who participated in Quaker peace missions for three years before the War into a Marine.
Ah, yet another thing I'd rather be doing than work.
They are absolutely incredible. I was in tears by the end. The letter that I originally learned was the end was not the last at all, by a long shot.
I'm going to try and transcribe them to my computer, editing the spelling mistakes in the typewritten versions as well as I can. The originals were written in longhand, and his sister by her own admission wasn't very good with a typewriter when she copied them over. There's a lot of references to his family that I don't understand, but for the most part they aren't too hard to figure out. I'm also going to post them here, hopefully managing one per day.
Luckily, his sister Gretchen is still alive. She's mentioned often in the letters and was his favorite correspondent... I hope I get a chance to interview her in the near future.
Since I'm on topic and feeling dedicated, I'm gonna do three tonight. Have a read and keep checking up on them - it's interesting noting the transformation of a law student who participated in Quaker peace missions for three years before the War into a Marine.
Ah, yet another thing I'd rather be doing than work.
