CEHBates_Dec1918_014c

Mr. S. M. Haslett came yesterday & had seen
Les who had called on Doris Allen ?
in New York, & he saw him also.

Edith has Influenza & is quite sick but
is doing well is not considered dangerously
ill — it is a wretched disease however even
in its mildest form — I trust you escape
it dear but we hear of it in every direction
from Europe as well as all over the U.S.

Dick still near Key West & not very
happy — worst place he ever was in he
says — his only consolation is that he