[Illustration: Page 2 of hand-written letter from Lt.-Colonel E. Réquin
to Clara Laughlin.]


[Transcriber's note: The letter in the second and third illustrations
is shown translated on the following page.]


Dear MADEMOISELLE LAUGHLIN:

I have read with the keenest interest your sketch of the life of
Marshal Foch. It is not yet history: we are too close to events to
write it now, but it is the story of a great leader of men on which I
felicitate you because of your real understanding of his character.

Christian, Frenchman, soldier, Foch will be held up as an example for
future generations as much for his high moral standard as for his
military genius.

It seems that in writing about him the style rises with the noble
sentiments which inspire him.

Thus in form of presentation as well as in substance you convey
admirably the great lesson which applies to each one of us from the
life of Marshal Foch.

Please accept, Mademoiselle, this expression of my respectful regards.

LT.-COLONEL E. RÉQUIN.