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[text on right-hand side] I. Personal
Aug. 15th

Left office with Mr. Pearson, Mr. Marshall and $2,202.15. Mr. Bailey came down to
depot with good wishes and a good luck pin and at high noon I bade my friends good-bye
and started on my tour over the world. I also bade good-bye to the Raleigh
of my twenties for when I see it again I shall be 30 years old. At the station I
weighed 128 pounds. With Mr. ^(and) Mrs. Will Royall on train.

Aug. 16th.

Woke in Jersey City at 7:00 and after taking ferry to New York went to Cook's office
at 9:00 [begin crossed out] A.M. [end crossed out] a.m. and went over my proposed tour with Mr. Hellfeld. A very nice man, but
gave me a suggestion of his first syllable when he told me that he feared that he
would not be able to get me a berth on the Pacific Mail "Korea," sailing from San Francisco,
Aug. 30th, although I wrote them last week to engage passage. It seems my
letter was delayed. Went back at 3:00 but still no word from the steamship company.
Five [begin crossed out] P.M. [end crossed out] p.m. ditto. If I can't get on the Pacific Mail, however, I'll go to Yellowstone
Park and see something of Montana and Washington (and possibly Canada) sailing
on the Japanese line from Seattle, [begin crossed out] Aug. 30th. [end crossed out] Sept. 6th. This will largely compensate for
any disappointment in getting on the finer Pacific Mail, so there is still--as Mark
Tapley would say-- "no credit in being jolly." Went to-night to see Marie Dressler
in "Tilda's Nightmare", a rattling good comedy with fine ballet.

Aug. 17th.

After play last night went to Judson Hotel and being unable to get a good room, took
a delightfully neat little cubby hole rather than go ^(out) on a midnight hunt for another
place, and slept like a top on the cot provided. Slept too late to go to Cook's at
9:00 as promised, but no matter, for when I did get there, no word from the Pacific
Mail. At noon, same thing. One [begin crossed out] P.M. [end crossed out] same thing some more; but rather than risk going
on an uncertainty, ^(I) decided to stay for ^(a) definite answer, which I got about 4:45, proceeding
to pay $905.68 for my ticket "over the world and under the world and back
again to you," and got $970 worth of Cook's traveler's checks, and hiked out at 5:30
to catch the 6:00 train for Chicago. Found my baggage and got it checked and just as
the conductor called "all [begin crossed out] abroad [end crossed out] aboard" I got on. Was much impressed in Metropolitan Museum ^(today)