Transcription of a letter from Herbert C. Patterson to Laurence L. Doggett (November 8, 1917)
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A three-page transcription of a letter from Herbert C. Patterson to Laurence L. Doggett November 8, 1917. In the letter Patterson explains to Doggett what he has been doing in France. He also tells him about what has been going on at the front lines of the war and some of the interesting people that he has meet while he was in France. In the letter a woman by the name of Ms. T Roosevelt Jr is mentioned, she is Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, she was heavily involved in Y.M.C.A. canteen work in France and was married to Theodore Roosevelt Jr, son of the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.
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Herbert C. Patterson graduated in 1915 from Springfield College, then the International YMCA College. After graduation he became the overseas representative for Canadian National Council Y.M.C.A. with Canadian troops of the 59th regiment during World War I. After the war, he spent most of his career with the Montreal YMCA, specifically the Westmount Branch. He Died on 1964
