Dosoledo November 27, 1918
Dear brothers and sisters,
This evening your telegram arrived. You can imagine what a pleasure it was after a year of not hearing any news of you. We’re happy to hear that you are all well, we too are all alive, we’re getting by so-so, mamma hasn’t been well for a few days but she gets up every day. From Uncle Natin, we learned that our brother finds himself in France, we were unhappy that he too has to take part in this martyrdom. Patience. We hope that soon everything will end, perhaps he’ll get leave, we want to see him so much.
At the same time we rejoice that we are free of the barbarians and we fervidly thank all those who with the sacrifice of their lives contributed to overcoming this difficult trial. We have certainly suffered not only hunger, but enormous sacrifices.
We are safe, the houses too, in order to live we were forced to make available what was the most expensive in the families, money was worth a lot in so many occasions, but for food it wasn’t worth anything, to get a little bit of grain we were forced to give in exchange butter, cheese and so many other things that were necessary for us to dress ourselves. Only in September they gave 15 days of permission to go to Udine to get some grain at a high price, and then in an instant you could die from the Spanish fever, before September you frequently had to pass over the highest mountains to pass through the border to travel to foreign towns in order to provide food.
The royals, those cursed villains that they were, prohibited us from moving from our district, even you can imagine how one could live in such conditions, with the products that we have from these lands.
It must be said that we had a desire to die, in one year they made 5 search and seizures of the animals, we still had our one animal and also a heifer of 2 years, we would be rich except that they seized both of them at once plus the feed, they left the good, but, God knows when they’ll repay us, up to now they haven’t taken everything, they left one cow for every 15 people.
Our government has begun to distribute the charity contributions, in brief, we hope to receive supplies by ticket, we’ll let our shoulders rest after a year of working like donkeys for a piece of bread. We’ll no longer hear the whistle of those cruel men who had the audacity to steal the food from our shoulders after so much sweat, and then they still made us pay enormous fines because we traveled beyond the district, they gave nothing and didn’t even let us provide for ourselves.

Dosoledo 27/11/1918
