Fifty-one original letters, mostly from G.H.Q., Chaumont, France, to his wife and other relatives in America, and typewritten extracts (245 p.) from letters and diaries, 28 Aug. 1917-19 Jan. 1919, concerning army life, hardships, experiences at the front, recreation, and his observations on the war.
Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineer Department of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, heading its Sound and Flash Ranging Service.
Author
Trowbridge, Augustus, 1870-1934.
Title
Augustus Trowbridge papers, 1917-1919.
Restricted access
Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at division indicated.
Reproduction
Published, with omissions, as the War Letters of Augustus Trowbridge, in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, v. 43-44.
Biography
Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineer Department of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, heading its Sound and Flash Ranging Service.