Dere Mable -- Love Letters of a Rookie

Series of humorous letters, purportedly letters to home from a soldier in World War I, first published as a collection in 1918. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Streeter (August 1, 1891 in Buffalo, New York - March 31, 1976 in New York City) was an American novelist and journalist, best known for the 1949 novel Father of the Bride and his Dere Mable series... "According to an in-book ad: "The best selling book of 1918, 550,000 in 8 months. For genuine humor nothing written in recent years surpasses these letters from a "simple soldier" to his best girl. Read them--and live with the rookie through all his perplexities, through all his amusements, through all his work, live with him and laugh with him--and at him!