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ALASKA ARIZONA CALIFORNIA IDAHO MONTANA NEVADA OREGON UTAH WASHINGTON

H. L. A. BATES
SECRETARY-MANAGER

STANDARD FORMS BUREAU
277 PINE STREET
TELEPHONE SUTTER 4560

TRADE MARK
STANDARD

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., [handwritten:] Oct 9th 1918

My very dear old Snedward:

I got a fine long letter from you the
other day, which took 8 days to go from where
you mailed it, to Bordeaux. You wrote to all
your brothers at the same time, and Dick sent
his to us to read and keep. We read Jos &
Les' before forwarding them on. The addresses
of your brothers as of today are as follows:

Major N. C. Bates U.S.M.C. Alongapo [ Olongapo ], P.I.

Lieut. L. R. Bates A.S., M.A, RMA "Garden City"[crossed out]
Aeronautical Supply Depot and Cocentration [Concentration] Camp
Garden City, Long Island, New York

Lieut R. W. Bates U.S.N. c/o Bureau of Navigation
Washington, D.C.

H. J. Bates c/o Western Rice Growers, Nelson, Butte Co., Cal.

From the foregoing you will note that Norman
has moved from Cavite to Olongapo where he
is in command. Dick writes that he is
on special secret duty, and heads his letter
U.S.S. ----------. That is why I give his address
c/o Bureau of Navigation. On the 27th of
Sept we got a wire from Les at Riverside that
he was leaving on the 30th, or 1st Oct, so Mother
and I went down that night on the Lark
arriving at Riverside about 2 pm Sat. Old Les
came in and stayed with us at the Mission Inn,