[Letter of Robert Lincoln O’Connell to his mother, Aug? 1917]

Wash. Barracks, D.C.
Monday

Dear Mother,

	We are all packed and waiting to start. We were 
supposed to start last Saturday, but it was put off till 
Monday, so I sent a dispatch Friday night. Did you get it? 
The way things look now we may be here for a few days more. 
Would you care to make the trip down and risk finding us 
gone? If you do, get the first train as we may be here 
till Wednesday or later. Tell Anna May I will write as 
soon as I can find time. If you come, get the 7th St. 
Wharves car, which will pass the barracks. 

[There is probably a second, or more pages, but these have 
not been located as of 4/2009. Transcribed by W.J. Shepherd]