World War I Collection

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.