Charles E. H. Bates Family Correspondence, 1915-1926

January – 17 – 1915 4 o'clock – The Underwood and Underwood Insurance Company of – Where they live[underlined].

This insured Charles Edward Harold Bates – (The undersigned)

[signature] Charles Edward Harold Bates

that this said Bates – that he the above signed, will never in his said life will he be married – The Underwood's say this said Bates will be married and hereby insure his said marriage license – to the sum of five dollars (5 bucks – bones – checkles, rocks – monsumas) to which the said above signed (also below signed) will pay a premium of $.15 (fifteen cents[underlined]) per year – until the said Charles Edward Harold is married.

Frances E. Underwood (Sarg. at arms money holder chief Talker)

Sect.-Vice Pres, etc. in Mexico –

(signed) C Edward H Bates

[imprint: University of California Memorandum [centered]

To] Mrs. H. L. A. Bates Alameda

In answer to your inquiry of July 5th. I find that your son, Charles E. H. Bates has completed all pre-medical requirements with the exception of Embryology and Chemistry 8B. It would be necessary for him to complete this work before September 28th if he intends to enter the Medical school in September 1918.

[Imprint: (Signed:)

The Recorder of the Faculties,

Per] Hugh F. Dormody

Berkeley, July 11, 1918.

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all in Mahogany & in lovely designs – Their piano too is a beauty – all their furniture is very nice. On Thursday Mother Win & I went to Mrs. Veruilye's to a Tennyson party – each one had to read their favorite poem from Tennyson. Mother read Sir Galahad. Win read Flower in the Crannied Wall. I had chosen another to read with it, but someone else read the other. I read "The Higher Pantheism." It was quite a delightful affair. They seem to be a fine lot of women who meet in this way. It is really a club, or reading circle, & a

few others were invited. Mother asked them all to come here two weeks from that day. I read from Lowell. Mrs. Jim McCarwick was there, & she always gives one something to think about. She is a splendid woman. There was a Mrs. Hall there too, a very interesting young woman with a fine mind evidently highly cultivated. She read Merlin & the Gleam, one of Tennysons later poems. It is very fine, you should read it, & she did it beautifully. She has attended Cornell, Anna says. Anna and all of the family admire The Challie very much. It is certainly most useful. They like my beaver hat too.

and think it looks very nice without any altering. It was very good indeed of you to plan a way to alter it, but I am glad it is not necessary. I went with Mother to Mrs. Barstow's today but she was out. She is a very attractive woman, so earnest and simple and lovely in every way, & her husband is admirable in his devotion to her – she is in a very delicate condition, but has improved lately. Mr. Crawford has been & is treating her. He is not treating Mother now – not regularly at least, nor is he treating me. He comes over every Sunday eve. and gives us a talk