ALS signed “Georgie,” six pages on three sheets, 5 x 6.25, United States Military Academy letterhead, August 18, 1904. Patton writes to his sister, Anne. In part [his spelling and punctuation retained]: “Your letter as very interesting and I am realy quite ancious to see Siberia I would like to be an actor in such a play. Yesterday we had a great time a Mrs. Watson asked ten plebes to a picnic and I was one of the ten we all went out at camp separately and met at a little lake in the hills below fort putnam there we waited for a long time and had just determined to drown the fellow who had told us we were invited when Mrs. Watson came in a carriage She brought lots of things to eat and five young ladies, each girl had a pece of paper pinned on her with her name and as soon as we came up we were similarly fixed so that there was no trouble about knowing who to spoke to…. Then we all ate and drank and most of them spooned but I was too polite… You see I had … met [Miss Watson] the day before under rather advantageous circumstances. I was on guard and when on guard and not walking, we have to clean every thing in signed I had brushed my hair and was looking very neat so I pretended to sweep the visitors tent where all the people could see me. While I was ingaged in this task Miss Watson came up and started to take two stools off the pile in the tent but they were not piled well and so started to fall on her—when I rushed to the rescue and stopped them. Ha! She is the visitor of a corp. who sits at my table and so there was method in my madness. There was one other maiden … and when I left she gave me her name card but I lost the card and forgot the name. We all had a very nice time and the upper class men did not say any thing about my audacity…. I got a letter from pop’s and he said that he had just killed Dan and that dance at last was happy I will finish this letter after dinner…. The first class were having artillery practice this morning and though we could not see the guns we could see the shells bursting on the hills and it looked fine….” Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Mild handling wear, otherwise fine condition. JSA/John Reznikoff Auction LOA and RRAuction COA.
