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Camp Upton, Long Island.
Feb. 19, 1919

Dear Jamison,

Your letter of Jan. 7 is just received today. I haven't time to answer other than express my appreciation 
of the letter. We sailed from Marsailles Jan. 30, stayed at Gibraltar five days and landed at Jersey City 
Feb. 17, being on the boat (Italian liner Dante Alighieu) eighteen days in all. The first of January and 
I had a ten day leave visiting Marseilles, Nice, Monte Carlo, Lyon and Paris. I also got over on Italian 
soil, and within ten feet of Spanish soil. An English guard stopped my going the ten feet. Visited 
Napoleon's Tomb and Notre Dame, besides various other places of interest in Paris. The gambling rooms 
at Monte Carlo are the prettiest rooms I have ever seen anywhere. Nice is the prettiest city in France, 
Paris the most interesting. The Prudential's picture of Gibraltar is very misleading, as the Gibraltar 
you see looks nothing like the picture, and strength of it is not so great but that two 16 in[inch] guns 
over in Spain could shoot it off the face of the earth. The city of Gibraltar is very interesting. 
Couldn't get over into Africa, but could see the

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coast for 25 miles. Rough by all the way home. Thus a kiss at the Goddess of Liberty. Was met by the 
Mayor's Reception Committee. And here we are, to be demobilized soon.

Regards to all my friends,
EPPERSON.

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