CEHBates601a

all in & everyone tells me what a proud mother
I should be – and I certainly am – only for
the heartache underneath. Your father
was called up dozens of times in the city
the day the article appeared & congratulated
& looked with & and asked when I became
a widow! Of course you know the Chronicle
ignored your father altogether & he felt rather
left in the lurch – but all his friends jollied
him so much about it that I think he
felt better. The Examiner does not mention
me [underlined] at all only – Mr. HL.A. Bates.

I am in haste dearie – Have been under