Pages That Mention San Pedro, Cal.
Charles E. H. Bates Family Correspondence, 1922-1923
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Stationery: UNITED STATES SHIP MARYLAND [centered]
Dear old Sned:—
I suppose that you wonder what has happened to me! Well, as a matter of fact, nothing at all. Just the same old grind but far more intensely so in that we are doing gunnery work every day now and have already fired two practices and are about
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U.S.S. New Mexico San Pedro, Cal. October 5, 1924.
Dearest old Betty & Sned:
I have been wondering why in hades I don't hear from you. I wrote you from Panama on the way around, & again from Seattle in June when you graduated. I don't know whether you haven't received those letters, but they had return address on the envelope & as they