Letters to Marguerite King from Charles M. Day. Letters contain information about Charles’s daily activities and personal matters. Letter dated Sept. 14 states that Charles’s unit has moved again, and describes an air fight. Charles criticizes what Marguerite is doing in New York because she is going to movies and dinners unescorted: “It is not the life I want my wife to lead;” “You can’t get away from the fact that women can’t live like men.”, 1918 Sept 5-30

File — Box: 3, Folder: 1

Staff Only

Letter signed Charles [Charles Day], [France], to Dearest [Marguerite King Day], September 29, 1918

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of correspondence from Charles M. Day to his girlfriend (and later his wife) Marguerite King while he was stationed in France during World War I, and letters of their son Henry P. Day to them while he was attending school in Massachusetts and while he was stationed in North Africa and Italy during World War II. Both sets of letters describe living conditions during the war, battles that the men fought in, and descriptions of the countries they were stationed in. Also included in the collection is a “History of Company B” written by Charles M. Day. It includes a list of all the members of that company, a list of those killed in action, a detailed movement-by-movement account of the company’s actions during World War I, a program from a reunion in 1933 (which includes biographical sketches of some of the members of the company, including Charles), and picture of the company. Additionally, there are various publications from World War II including a “Road to Rome” booklet with Henry’s notes in the margins and an “Our First D-Day” magazine.