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[Imprint:
illustration of TECUMSEH
CHIEF OF THE SHAWNEES

PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT
The Shawnee Fire Insurance Company
of Topeka, Kansas
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H. L. A. BATES, GEN. AGENT, 240 SANSOME STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., ]

Home Sunday July 21st 1912 11 am

My dear old Sneddie:

It is quite awhile since I wrote to you or Dick
but I have not had the time. I was very much
worn out by heavy office work and took a week
off and with Mother and Jocelyn went to Applegate.

It did us all a world of good, but when I returned
the office work was piled high on my desk and
I went two mornings to the City on the 7 am train
and once on the 7.30. I have nearly caught up
but it made me sick as the work should have
been kept up in my absence. Mr Neibling leaves
in two weeks for a months vacation, so I shall
again have my hands full. You are certainly
having a fine time. I quite envied you your
trip to Catalina and the glass bottomed boat.
It is I think a most beautiful place. When
do you expect to be home again. Lesley is through
with his job today, and is going to take a rest
before college opens. Jocelyn and one of the Medburys
rowed around Alameda yesterday. When they came
round out of San Larego bay the tide was against
them with a very heavy wind. We saw them
pulling hard and they looked tired out, so I
took a flat bottomed boat and pulled to them
intending to tow them, but when I reached them
I turned around and found that I could not