World War I Collection

around like a blue jay corn plaster to you boys many more years - Leslie or Dick may out of desperation marry her - but they will go down in my estimation if they do unless they can make her over a hundred per cent.

This may appear catty [underlined] - but its me right from the shoulder - And you are with me boy because I remember many talks we have had on Roberta - And I don't believe now that Duchesses and Queens are intertaining [entertainting] you - you have much thoughts for a Lioness -

But please tell me if there is any truth to Dick or Leslie being engaged to Roberta - Love is a queer thing you never can tell where its going to land.

I may go east one of these days with Harry - hope to anyway -

One of my old beaus Malcolm Chesley Sgt. C.M. Chesley is with the 101 U.S. Engineers Company C - 26 [underlined] Division - if you ever run across his path look him

[Printed stationery, centered]: BATES 727 Paru Street ALAMEDA, CAL.

March 17 1919

My own darling Edward How do you like these letter heads - Father found his enveloped system so successful that he tried AM letters - I don't like it so well in these because there is no need of it & it is printed I think not engraved & I only like engraving on my letterheads it was very good on the envelopes because it was so clear there was no excuse for the letter getting lost absolutely in case of not finding the person addressed & with you & Dick & Nor &

work behind the lines of some kind - but what? Your grandmother writes that she is delighted at receiving a little photo of you with the Croix de Guerre. Jocelyn got one too which is a little better than ours - clearer & darker - less faded out. Father brought over ours & the best Kodac [Kodak] one & the big one i.e. taken in Sept and to the office today as Mr. Shearer was coming in to get one or two he wants one to frame for the school & one for the prospectus & was delighted [underlined] to find there was one with the decoration on it! i.e. showing. He phoned from San Rafael last week about it - He has asked before your father says for one of each of you boys to frame for the school - one of Nor & Dick also. Well. they will

make a good ad for his school - but we have not any of Nor or Dick for him right now. We asked him to return the others - the little ones after they are copied. Today is lovely weather warm [underlined] & sunny we have had a lovely flowering peach in blossom but it is fading at last. I wanted you to see it - Its a pity they fade so quickly - We like these photos of you taken in Italy! They will always [underlined] be greatest & so will all the other too. Who are the Sege girls are they French the names sound so - ? Or are they the girls who went to the Roamanian [Romanian] Relief Ship whom you saw go - the one from Chicago? I suppose not because we think the girls Sebe look French - We are all pretty [underlined] well dear and longing for you to come back. Did I tell you that Nor Bates was trying forty five cases cellar to

was read a few years ago and it was then prophecized that I would marry a foreigner. But I have never yet seen one that I would care to see daily across the breakfast table.

We are now at New Orleans Louisiana and are enjoying ourselves as well as is possible under present conditions. We are going to go out of commission and then I shall probably be ordered to one of our large ships. I am sorry, in a way to lose the Cincinnati but it seems to be necessary.

Mother and father as well as the kids appear to be well and happy as am I. Good bye, old sword swallower good luck and may we meet soon. As for myself I hope "over there".

Congratulations again old [sailor?], as ever Your loving brother Dick