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PATTON, GEORGE SMITH, Lieutenant General. Autograph letter signed ("George S Patton Jr.") to his wife, Beatrice Ayer, Fort Myer, 19 November 1912. 2 pages, 4to, on Headquarters, Fifteenth U.S. Cavalry stationery, original envelope addressed in Patton's hand.
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PATTON, GEORGE SMITH, Lieutenant General. Autograph letter signed ("George S Patton Jr.") to his wife, Beatrice Ayer, Fort Myer, 19 November 1912. 2 pages, 4to, on Headquarters, Fifteenth U.S. Cavalry stationery, original envelope addressed in Patton's hand.
A RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER
One week after his twenty-seventh birthday, Patton writes a long, gossipy letter to his wife. "I had a fine birthday and wish that you could have been here. The wine is fine and we could not have had anything nicer. You must have made a great impression on Gen[eral] Ward; both he and Capt[ain] McCory have taken special trouble to mention it to me. As you have noticed by the papers they are sending a lot of men to West Point and they nearly got me; Mathews, P. the present instructor in athletics almost got relieved and the order was out detailing me in his place but it finally turned out that he did not have to go so I was passed. I should have hated to have gone for I would not have so good a chance to use my horses and also I am not high ranking enough [to] get good quarters...We had some nice races at Middle Burgh V[irgini]a Saturday...I rode in one of five miles...[with] pretty good jumps, six stone walls nearly four feet high and some big fences. Only two people fell however and neither of them was me..." Patton represented the United States in the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912; he placed fifth in the military pentathlon, an event including steeplechase riding and pistol shooting.
A RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER
One week after his twenty-seventh birthday, Patton writes a long, gossipy letter to his wife. "I had a fine birthday and wish that you could have been here. The wine is fine and we could not have had anything nicer. You must have made a great impression on Gen[eral] Ward; both he and Capt[ain] McCory have taken special trouble to mention it to me. As you have noticed by the papers they are sending a lot of men to West Point and they nearly got me; Mathews, P. the present instructor in athletics almost got relieved and the order was out detailing me in his place but it finally turned out that he did not have to go so I was passed. I should have hated to have gone for I would not have so good a chance to use my horses and also I am not high ranking enough [to] get good quarters...We had some nice races at Middle Burgh V[irgini]a Saturday...I rode in one of five miles...[with] pretty good jumps, six stone walls nearly four feet high and some big fences. Only two people fell however and neither of them was me..." Patton represented the United States in the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912; he placed fifth in the military pentathlon, an event including steeplechase riding and pistol shooting.