Nov. 20, 1918.My Dearest Mol her and All:Just a few lines to let you know that I am well and hoping that this finds you all the same. Will soon be coming home and I surely will be glad to get home. I just got off of the train. We came from the front lines and are at a hotel now and we surely are having a good time. All we have to do is to eat and sleep. Have a swell place to sleep and surely do get good things to eat. This surely is alive, I will want to have a place like this when I come home. Ha! Ha! They surely do treat the boys well over here. I do wish that it was a little warmer now for there is a fine bathing beach here but it is a little bit too cold. This is a fine hotel, the name of it is Provence Daiand. Now' don’t worry about me, mother, for I am well and will soon be coming back.Well, mother, I would like to behome with you Christmas, but I don’t think that I will but I will be thinking of you all just the same and Ihope that you will have a happyChristmas, for the end of the war will make many homes happy. Well,mother, I will have to close for this time. Will try and write every week so don’t worry about me for it won’t ho long i ill I will be coming home and then we can be happy again. TellBill I wish he could be here to see all the sights. I will have a lot to tell |when I come home. jFrom your loving son, IPRIVATE OTTO KASTNER. I Give my best regards to everyone! and tell them I am having a good I time. I