World War I Collection

(front) Genova -- Monumento a Cristoforo Colombo

Postmarked: Genova Ferrovia 13-14 20 IV 1919

(back) Genoa Apr. 20 '19.

Have just finished our tour of the town. Leave on the 11 P.M. train for Rome. Saw where Columbus lived, and went through the famous cemetary here. Phil.

Miss H. Engebretsen, 1331 Grove St., Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

(front) Napoli -- Corso Vittorio Emanuele

(back) Naples 4/22/19

Came here last night from Rome, return to Rome in the morning. Had a wonderful day at Pompaii and Vesuvius. Nearly choked with fumes from the crater while looking down into it. Snowed while on the mountain which spoiled the view of Naples and the bay, which is very fine. Phil.

Postmarked: Roma Ferrovia 21-22 24-IV 1919

Miss H. Engebretsen, 1331 Grove St., Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

We will all pray constantly that "the angel of the Lord encampeth around our young men"! and will bring them home in safety!

A wonderful Italian lady whom I heard speak last winter on the Italian part in this war said that the people of her town thirty miles from Rome – where her husband was the rector – took that verse as their motto and used it in their prayer for their young men – and she said none [underlined] of them had been seriously injured or killed at all up to that time