Daddy Pat of the Marines: Being His Letters From France to His Son Townie,

Excerpt from Daddy Pat of the Marines: Being His Letters From France to His Son Townie

These Letters, as originally written by Lieutenant-Colonel Evans, while on active service in France, to his six-year-old boy in America, were patiently and lovingly printed in large and small capital letters, of Big Primer size, so as to be more easily read by a soldiers patriotic little son, just mastering the art of reading. The typography of the present edition of the Letters was chosen partly in order to preserve, insofar as type and printers ink would permit, something of the distinctive character of the originals; but largely also, in order that as many as possible other little patriots and future soldiers of the Republic might get at first hand from these simple, vivid pages, wisely softened to the measure of young sensibilities, some conception of the sacrifice and the heroism of many other fathers and uncles and friends of the older generation in helping to save civilization from the grimness and menace of the Great World War.

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