YALE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

FREDERICK A. POTTLE..............................Hall of Graduate Studies
....................................................................New Haven, Connecticut

....................................................................Nov. 16th, 1937.

Dr. John Foster,
77 Main Street,
Waterbury, Conn.

Dear Dr. Foster:

I am very much pleased to learn that you enjoyed Stretchers. The book still sells a few copies each year, but I seldom hear it mentioned except by members of my own company. Your reference to Fort Oglethorpe sent me into a reverie, and I suddenly realized that like you, I was homesick for the old life there. The most painful part was that I felt keenly for the first time that I was young then, and that I am now forty.

It was a coincidence that we should have been discharged at Camp Devens on the same day, When I was living in New York I met a young Yale lawyer, an artillery officer, who went across on the same boat as we did, was wounded, and came back through our hospital, and finally came home on the boat on which I returned.

I think the plan of printing my notes on President Roberts has been dropped. I insisted that before publication, Mrs. Roberts should be consulted. Either they lost interest, or she vetoed the publication.

Faithfully yours,