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H. L. A. BATES
SECRETARY-MANAGER

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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.,]

Friday -
Aug 16th 1918

My dear old Snedward:

I suppose you must be about over now
but I have of course no way of tellIng where
you land i.e. in England or France. It certainly
was hot in New York, and you must have
been very glad to get to sea where it would
be much cooler. I imagine the trip across
this time of the year would be very pleasant,
provided your tummy did not go back on
you. A long letter from Dick today, in which
he says owing to his duties as Executive Officer,
he could not be spared, hence could not get
leave to see you before you left. He speaks
very highly of you, but feels badly about not
being able to get over there himself. He is still
apparently on the East Coast, this letter having
taken the usual time of 6 days to come across.

I have invited Mother, Roberta Lion, Colonel Glassford,
Lieut Lewis & Lieut Hatch to take lunch with me
at the Commercial Club tomorrow, to see General
Pau. I see by this mornings paper that the
Chairman of his commission dropped dead last
night in his room in the Hotel, so I dont know
how the lunch is going to be! Lieut Lewis came
to our house last Sunday. Mother was asleep in
her room, and I was asleep on the lounge in
the sitting room. I woke up with a start, all
bunged up with sleep, and went to the door. He
said he was Dick's roommate or classmate all