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send you the "Cal" concerning it. Also others.

Bull has gone to India again.

Elanor Lion is going to have a son or daughter?

I am feeling rotten. My body aches at all times & I am always in an unhappy mood. These darn neck makes me sick.

Saturday night we spent the evening at the Sargents where we had a fine dinner. It was very

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nice and I was glad we went.

Sunday I went riding in father-in-law's machine to Byron Hot Springs, California and the surrounding country. Just Mr. & Mrs. & Martha Elizabeth Linderman Bates & myself. Gee it was certainly great but I was terribly tired when I arrived home.

I am afraid that I'll have to do as Dr. Eaves said & take out a leave of absence for when in class I get exhausted, etc. & at present I'm way behind weight. The trouble with taking out a leave is I can't get these same prerequisite courses for a year & by that time I won't feel like going back.

Will write very soon

With love

Jocelyn Bates.

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Anything or[inserted] excuse to make money. Its a crazy ordinance. Sally Robbins was pinched also.

Frederick "Fred" Linderman wants me to go to Davis for a short practical course for a short time on hogs as soon as Dr. Eaves will let me. I should like to do it as he says he would stake me financially that is buy all the hogs this fall while young & for me to fatten them on his rice land for market. He

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present at the dedication of the Campanile. It was very interesting & I shall tell my children & grandchildren that I was present at it.

Tonight I'm going to sleep with my collar off for the 1st time. Dr. Eaves says its O.K. But I have to wear in day time for a month more & then some perhaps. I feel kind of nervous when I think of taking it off.

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Saw Andy Smith yesterday. He's fine. If they have spring practices he wants me to help him coach. Pretty nice, huh. Hack Dexter cinched his position for catcher on the Varsity & will win his Big "C" Saturday against Stanford. He's playing good ball but it's not the team they've had before.

I must close to bring a box of candy to Sutherland's before it closes so I can mail it to you. Its for Easter, & it carries our love to you dear Snedward

With love, Jocelyn

"It was good to hear from you, because you know [underlined] how he loved [underlined] you all and how interested he was in the boys."

She asked about Jocelyn & urged me to take it to the President if necessary to prevent his going into the service as it would be as bad as murder to allow him to go in – She [double underlined] said in case of certain pressure brought to bear on an injury of that kind it might [underlined] prove fatal – and injury for life would be as bad anyway & Dr. Eaves said it might [undelined] cause that. Though he never said it might.

July 24, 1918.

Nelson, Butte Co., Cal.

P.S. Martha asked me when I wrote to say goodbye to you and to give you her best love, as did Mr. & Mrs. Linderman.

Dear Edward:

After staying around home the other day, I went down to Brookdale for Mr. Linderman as he went to Cuba, I came back and left for Nelson which place I arrived last night.

You remember me complaining of a bum cold and teeth aches, well I visited Dr. Eaves to find out if the after effects were causing the teeth to ache. He said impossible, so I went to Dr. James, who said my teeth were alright, so I left.

When I got there last night my front tooth ached terribly in fact I couldn't sleep last night and this morning Jewell made me go to Chico where I interviewed dentists. They all said it was an ulcerated tooth and an abscess was forming. So they drilled into the tooth and right into the nerve which was dead. They claim the dead nerve was forming gas and that I would