World War I Collection

[Imprint: illustration of TECUMSEH CHIEF OF THE SHAWNEES

PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT The Shawnee Fire Insurance Company of Topeka, Kansas —————————— H. L. A. BATES, GEN. AGENT, 240 SANSOME STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., ]

Home Sunday July 21st 1912 11 am

My dear old Sneddie:

It is quite awhile since I wrote to you or Dick but I have not had the time. I was very much worn out by heavy office work and took a week off and with Mother and Jocelyn went to Applegate.

It did us all a world of good, but when I returned the office work was piled high on my desk and I went two mornings to the City on the 7 am train and once on the 7.30. I have nearly caught up but it made me sick as the work should have been kept up in my absence. Mr Neibling leaves in two weeks for a months vacation, so I shall again have my hands full. You are certainly having a fine time. I quite envied you your trip to Catalina and the glass bottomed boat. It is I think a most beautiful place. When do you expect to be home again. Lesley is through with his job today, and is going to take a rest before college opens. Jocelyn and one of the Medburys rowed around Alameda yesterday. When they came round out of San Larego bay the tide was against them with a very heavy wind. We saw them pulling hard and they looked tired out, so I took a flat bottomed boat and pulled to them intending to tow them, but when I reached them I turned around and found that I could not