World War I Collection

[Imprint: H. L. A. Bates 277 Pine Street San Francisco, Cal. ]

May 17th 1921 Tuesday

My dear old Sned: I opened the enclosed Govt. envelope as I could not tell who it was for. I got a postal card from Mother yesterday dated Tuesday the 10th.

She had been to tea at Chevy Chase and saw President Harding playing golf and is apparently having a great time. She wrote Ella (letter dated Wed) that she & Mrs. Ramsay had been doing Baltimore, and that she was going to visit Dick for three days. I suppose she stayed until last Sat at Annapolis and is now in New York.

I am going to Sargents to dinner tonight, and tomorrow I am asked to Marguerite's. I feel very shaky and bum today for some reason. I awoke this a.m. at before 4 and did not get to sleep again.

Jos & Martha & the baby did not get get home Sunday night until 9. Jos says that the baby seems not to have suffered. Mr. Sargent says that coming home Sunday, they, on an up grade, came up behind a big wagon. Two cars tried to pass them at the same time, and got into a collision with each other, and then with Heckman. I believe the latter's fenders were crushed or torn off but the other cars were both laid up for repairs.

Saw Uret Sinoreson this am. Asked all about you and the rest of the family. Wants me to remember him to everyone when I write.

Lots of love to you Edw. from your loving father HLA Bates

to be deeply impressed. Did you go up the Washington monument & notice the granite slabs supplied by the various states? And the new Lincoln memorial?

Annapolis, also, is a mighty interesting place and I am glad that you have at last seen the place where I enjoyed five years of student toil. The surroundings with the Severn on one side, Chesepeake on the other and old Annapolis itself on the shore side are very instructive and beautiful. It was some place!

What did you think of Baltimore? I nearly owned the Baltimore Sun once thru the daughter — but I guess it is just as well that I did not go into the publishing business.

Give my best to Norman, Helen & baby Patricia and likewise to Roy Tulle & Mr. Scbrat. Why dont you call on Bogie Bogardus at the Bankers Trust 42nd & Fifth (He married Berd Carter, you know). How's Broadway?

With best regards, I am as ever Richard "Dick" Waller Bates.