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Home Sunday 3pm Jan'y 12th 1919

My dear old Snedward:

We got two letters from you about two weeks
ago from Luxembourg, on your way to Coblenz! I had
copies made as usual and sent one to Dick and
one to Nor. I have not written you for some
time, as on the Monday before Xmas I came
home from the office with a bad cold, and went
to bed. The next day Mother staid in bed
also with a bad cold. Jos & Les looked after
us, otherwise we would have been helpless.

A day or two after we got up, but I did
not go to the office until last Monday Jan 6th
as I did not feel well enough. After I had been
out of bed two or three days, I asked Dr. Reynolds
to come and examine me. He said both Mother
and I had had a touch of the "flu." On Dec 31st
Jos went to Los Angeles with the Lindermans in
their car. He was taken sick on the way
down, and when they reached Los Ang, they put
him to bed at the Alexandria Hotel and sent
for a Dr. He pronounced it the grippe, but it
was really the "flu." On Sunday the 5th, Frederick Linderman wired me that Jos was ill, that
they had to return, and he could not be left