SCARCE PERSONAL ACCOUNT (MILITARY--WWI.) CHRISTIAN, ROYAL A. Roy's Trip to the Battlefields of Europe, Being the Diary of Royal A. Christian. Frontispiece. 157 pages. Tall 8vo, original yapped brick-red wrappers, printed in black; edges typically with some wear; white (bleached) spot on rear cover. Chambersburg, PA, 1919
inscribed and signed first [and only] edition of this rare "diary," kept by the butler to the president of the Cumberland Valley Railroad. From chapter one: "On Friday, October 5th, 1917, President M.C. Kennedy, President of the Cumberland Valley Railroad sent for me to come to his office and said 'Roy, I am going to France; I am sorry I cannot take you along, but when I get over there, if I find a place for you, do you want to come?'"-- And he did, but he was only able to after a lot of "string-pulling" by the powerful Mr. Kennedy, now Major Kennedy. It was not at all common practice for white officers to take their butlers to war with them. No copies located by OCLC.
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