January. 1918 C. U. C. I\ AI.UMXI JOURNAL 3 



Having- r.o more to say at present 1 will now close wishing yon again a Merrv 

 Christmas. 



Sincerely, 



PvT. Ri:.\ATo M. CoKTI. 



Cam]) W'adsworth. S C 



Jannary 20, 19 iS. 

 Prof. Jeannot llostmann. 



College of Pharmacy, 



New York. N. Y. 



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\ly dear Prof. Hostmann : 



Your most welcome letter of recent date received the other day and it cer- 

 tainly gave me, as well as the other boys, great pleasure to hear from you and to 

 know of what is going on up north. 



The package of Journals followed your letter by a day. I am at a loss to 

 express the gratitude that we boys feel toward you for sending the same. I 

 passed them to the boys and they all want me to thank you for sending them and 

 they have all said that they will write you a note of thanks for the same. Up 

 until to-night we have been so busy that w^e haven't had time to read them. Just 

 before I started this letter we all gathered around our tent fire and began read- 

 ing them aloud. For an hour or so army life was forgotten, the cold whistling 

 wind disturbed us not, and all of us as we read your Journals thought of the 

 days we had spent at college under your supervision and instruction, talked of 

 the many little incidents connected wath those days, and all with one accord 

 agreed that those were the happy days. 



The list of the names of the boys that had enlisted interested us very much ; 

 many of the boys we had lost track of and the fact that they too had sacrificed 

 all to serve our country and maintain the liberty that we are so proud of gives 

 us all renewed energy to put forth our best efforts to bring this war to a glorious 

 close and to help make those stars that you all have so thoughtfully designated 

 vis with shine still brighter because of noble deeds accomplished and to make you 

 and all the other professors of C. U. C. P. feel proud of us. If it were possible 

 for you to publish the different organizations that our boys are connected with 

 we would appreciate it very much. 



The weather down here "is anything but what might apply to the ''Sunny 

 South." The temperature has fallen many times to zero and even below. We 

 manage to keep well, however, and all say when things seem to have reached the 

 limit of endurance, "Well, it might be much worse." 



I hope that everything at college is progressing nicely, and that it will be 

 one of the most successful years that the college has ever experienced. 



Regarding that picture that I promised to send you of all of us boys, I have 

 tried my best to get them all together several times but it always seems that 

 someone of them is away on some detail or other and thus preventing a picture 

 of the whole crowd, but I promise you that I will try to round them all up 

 some time very soon. As I told them to-night, it's the least that we might do for 

 vou. 



