Watch List notes:

Post Spanish-American Era War Correspondence from William Dietz in the Philippines to Ernest Laubenheimer, ca.1898-1903 With Postal Covers Correspondence of William Dietz to Ernst Laubenheimer. Includes a carte-de-viste of William Dietz in uniform taken by Fotografia Pertierra in Manila. Dietz served in Co. E., Engineer Corps. U.S. Army, starting in January 1900, thru November 1902 when he is back stateside in California (a further letter states that he was discharged in February 1903.) Lastly a postcard from Dietz dated 1915. The Philippine correspondence consists of 12 letters written from Caloocan, Angeles, Povac, Santa Anna or San Fernando all in the Philippines and Benicia, Calif., all with their embossed stamped envelopes (one cut corner). The topics of the letters deal with the travel over from the states, housing, weather, impressions of the "natives", how the friars pump up them full of religion, locals dressing up for the Cock-fights, the local girls and some of the trouble they can cause; roadbuilding projects near Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon (including a drawing of a stone arched bridge); the diet and pay of the natives; invasion of grasshoppers on a rice field; food customs of the natives and prices for mangos and chickens; laziness of some; money exchange, US for Mexican 1:2 ratio, in the hospital with an abscess, a mule drinking holy water from the church, cholera, the return to the states via Nagasaki. Finally, an old address book page with a Peekskill contact.

Estimate: 2000-3000