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I mean its hard on him being away from home & as your [you're] about the only one he knows, it will make him happy even if you go up and talk to him, now & then.

Req. Vaughan told me that Ken says that all seniors who were to graduate & that went into the service were given their degrees. Thus you get yours. Swell stuff. I hope its true & I am trying to find out.

Howard Days wrung up last night & asked to be remembered to you when

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I next write.

Kinkajou is a huppy gone a duddy. He dumpy all over the floorey.

While in the T.&D. last night some damn fool back up into our bus & mashed the fender. Just our luck. Some people are idiots.

Tommy Allen & Ish Smith are in Aviation at Berkeley.

I'm going to try & work my way to Honolulu on a Matson ship if I can sooner or later. Just for the trip.

I have to register for draft June 5. Swell isn't it.

Hoping your well & happy Edward old fellar & with love

Jocelyn.

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May 21st 1918

My dear Edward:

In one of your letters recently you said you had only $1.75, that you had not been paid for last month, and that you had borrowed $10.00 from Lesley. I am not sending you any money, as I have told you to ask me when you needed it, and you have not done so. You may not have intended it as a hint, I don't think you did, but I feel that you ought to write to me openly for either a gift or a loan. I dont think that I have yet received any thanks for paying for your uniform at Adams & West.

I am not complaining, as I am used in my family to not receiving thanks, but all of you, for your own sakes, should show appreciation of things done for you. Lesley says his watch is on the bum. I have sent him a box today to ship it back to me in, and I have seen Shreve who will overhaul it. How is yours now?

Last Sunday was opening "to"[crossed out] day at the boat house. It was miserably cold and windy, and I dont like to see the crowds of young fellows who ought not to be in civilian clothes. Tommy Allen was there in his Flying Cadet Uniform and looked well in it. Howard Deas telephoned in last night to get the latest dope about you. Bull Lion goes again on the Colusa to India. He brought us a