This project is no longer actively updated, external links may be broken.
WWIOnline > Exhibits Home > WWI Online > Projects > Mail Call: a podcast of news, letters, and stories from the Great War. > Episode 9: Wartime Correspondence

Episode 9: Wartime Correspondence

Right click and save as to download Episode 9 as MP3.

Episode 9 Show Notes

This episode of Mail Call brings to life some wartime correspondence. Letters provide an intimate perspective of the lives of soldiers and their families. In particular, the following selections highlight the day-to-day experiences of ordinary soldiers and officers.

Selections from Edward D. Forman postcard collection, 1918
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:336023

Letter, To: "Miss E. V. Glanville" From: Arthur Evanson Glanville, August 15, 1918.
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:489930

Copy, Typescript, Memo: "War Office Scheme For Sending to Officers, Prisoners of War in Germany," [n.d.].
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:488401

Typescript, Letter, To: "Dear Madam" From: Lady Henrietta MacDonnell, President, October 29, 1918.
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:488417

Letter, To: "Dear Ma" From: Joseph Canfield, November 7, 1918.
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:466683

Letter, To: Frank Canfield From: C. R. Whipple, January 15, 1919.
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:466669

Letter, To: Olive Seager From: Edwin E. Seager, March 11, 1919.
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:341954

Letter, From: "Mama" To: Edwin E. Seager, March 24, 1919.
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:341946

Manuscript Journals of Frank R. Steed US soldier in WWI France, 1918-1919
v. 1: https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:285646
throughout scrapbooks: various postcards
p. 77: “Appreciation of Military Services” (Smith), June 16, 1919
p. 78: Thank you letter (Prout), September 5, 1919

Manuscript Journals of Frank R. Steed US soldier in WWI France, 1918-1919
v. 2: https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:290282
p. 89: Virginia Dee Sappington to General Pershing, February 24, 1919

Greek Meets Greek
https://archive.org/details/greekmeetsgreekw00sapp
p. 143: Virginia Dee Sappington to Sgt. J.R. Buchanan, February 24, 1919
p. 181: Sgt. J.R. Buchanan to Virginia Dee Sappington, June 23, 1919

---

That concludes this episode of Mail Call. Historical documents for this episode were accessed through the digital collections of the Digital Library@Villanova University and the Internet Archive. The theme music is from "Til We Meet Again" as performed by Nicholas Orlando's Orchestra. The Mail Call podcast is a project of Home Before the Leaves Fall: a Great War Centennial Exposition. For more information, visit wwionline.org.

This episode featured the voice talents of Laura Bang, Jesse Flavin, Michael Foight, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Rob LeBlanc, Ruth Martin, Amanda McCollum, Geoff Scholl, David Uspal, and Sarah Wingo.

Narrator: Chris Hallberg

Editor: Gabriella Bernocco

Producer: Chris Hallberg

Executive Producer: Laura Bang

THE LATEST:

"Doing Her Best for Uncle Sam": WWI in Girls' Series Fiction

An overview of three girls' series books that had heroines who participated in the war effort at home and abroad.

Prisoners Make Good at the Front

Eastern State Penitentiary—opened in 1829 and closed in 1970—operated throughout nearly every major conflict in modern American history: the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Vietnam War. The inmate population mirrored a typical military population—in large part made up of young working class men.

Not Waiting for the Call: American Women Physicians and World War I

War has always upended women’s lives; left at the home front to care for their families and returning soldiers in a society where all of the usual economic and social structures have disappeared. But by the onset of World War I, women were poised to play a more active role than that of the homemaker struggling to hold families and some semblance of civil society together with diminished resources.

BLOG POSTS:

Mail Call Podcast, Episode 10
February 6th
Episode 10 of the Mail Call podcast takes a closer look at women’s contributions to the war efforts.. Mail Call is also available through iTunes/Apple Podcasts.
New exhibit: “Now far from home”: the ending of the Great War in Popular Imagination and Culture”
October 4th
Now on display from October 4, 2018 through February 20th, 2019, on the 1st floor of Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University, the exhibit “Now far from home”: the ending of the Great War in Popular Imagination and Culture tells the story of American…
Mail Call podcast, Episode 9
March 16th
Episode 9 of the Mail Call podcast brings to life a selection of wartime correspondence. Mail Call is also available through iTunes/Apple Podcasts.

 

Last Modified: 2023-08-03 16:22:19