Document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-model href="https://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="null"?><TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Zeller Letter 1942-09-05</title> <author>John Zeller</author> <respStmt> <persName>Susan Falciani Maldonado</persName> <resp>University Archivist and Director of Special Collections</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Diane Jakacki</persName> <resp>Digital Scholarship Coordinator</resp> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <distributor>Special Collections/University Archives, Bertrand Library</distributor> <authority>Bucknell University</authority> <address> <addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine> <addrLine>Pennsylvania</addrLine> </address> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>John F. Zeller Papers</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <xenoData><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:as="http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#" xmlns:cwrc="http://sparql.cwrc.ca/ontologies/cwrc#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:geo="http://www.geonames.org/ontology#" xmlns:oa="http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#" xmlns:schema="http://schema.org/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" xmlns:fabio="https://purl.org/spar/fabio#" xmlns:bf="http://www.openlinksw.com/schemas/bif#" xmlns:cito="https://sparontologies.github.io/cito/current/cito.html#" xmlns:org="http://www.w3.org/ns/org#"/></xenoData></teiHeader> <text> <body> <div> <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-05_001_0.jpg" n="1"/> <opener> <dateline> Pvt. John F. Zeller<lb/> F-10-4 F.A.R.C.<lb/> Fort Bragg, N.C.</dateline> <salute>Dear Mother & Dad + Grandma --</salute> </opener> <p>My address is above. We were put on quaranteen immediately upon arrival, so I could not phone or telegraph. We are confined to our company street. for 14 days. I'll get off on the 20th.</p> <p>I will not get a furlough until I have completed basic training, so I guess it will be impossible for me to get home before Christmas. </p> <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-05_002.jpg" n="2"/> <p> I am in a field artillery regiment. We will set up communications - telephone lines- for observors and between batteries. My years on the switchboard at BU got me in this. I am the only one of our group here. The rest of the fellows are also in field artillery, but they are in other companies. I won't be able to see them before the two weeks are up and perhaps not then. There are 85,000 men here and the camp stretches for 25 miles.</p> <p>It is very nice, and I have no doubt but what I'll <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-05_003.jpg" n="3"/> like it. I'm going to work hard and do the very best I can.</p> <p>Basic training here lasts at least 8 weeks - perhaps 13 - then I'll be shipped somewhere else. I shall hope it will be to officers training school.</p> <p> The initials in my address means this - Battery F, 10th Batalion, 4th regiment, Field Artillery Replacement Center.</p> <p> There is a great deal to tell, but I went to get this out, as I know you're anxious. I'll write more details tomorrow <pb facs="https://leaf.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/1942-09-05_004.jpg" n="4"/> night. Mail at regular rate takes two days. This will go air mail. I'm posting it at 6:00 P.M. Let me know how soon you get it.</p> <closer> <salute>Yours til tomorrow's letter,</salute> <signed>John</signed> </closer> <postscript> <p>P. S. Please send me a pair of slippers. I want the kind that consist of nothing but a sole + heel + straps over the feet - made of rubber or [illegible] or something like that. I'd prefer not leather, because I want them for the shower room. Ken Wolfe is here, but of course I can't get out to see him. J.</p> </postscript> </div> </body> </text> </TEI> Document Download Object Type XML document Related Item No Medium document