Red Roof

Red Roof

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Letters Written Home From France in the First Half of 1915  was comprised of letters written by APA to his family and edited by his friend and Eastern Point neighbor Henry Davis Sleeper.  The book was published in an edition of two hundred and fifty numbered copies bound in paper wraps.  There were also five lettered copies.  This book along with With the American Ambulance Field Service in France,  Friends of France and Diary of Section VIII were used by the American Field Service to help in fundraising, recruiting, and creating sympathy for the French war effort.

The letters give a vivid description of Andrew's impressions as he starts at the American Ambulance becomes a driver in Dunkirk and rises to become the Inspector-General for the ambulance sections of the American Ambulance Field Service.  A digital copy can be found here  http://www.ourstory.info/ (you may need to go to the library section and find it if the link does not completely connect).

Three copies of the book are pictured above.  On the Left is the title page of a leather bound copy from Red Roof.  Center top is one of the five special copies inscribed by Henry D. Sleeper to former AFS driver and author Leslie Buswell.  Below is one of the two hundred and fifty numbered copies (no. 210) inscribed by Sleeper in February 1917.  A typescript for the book can be seen on the right of the photo.