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6-8-1917
Sweetheart:
It is Friday night the night before the day we sail, and the last change, perhaps, I shall have to mail a letter to you until we arrive in Bourdeaux, which will mean that it will be a month before you can receive another letter from me. It will take from ten to four teen days for our boat to arrive, and
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perhaps two or three weeks for mail to be censored and carried back to California. In the mean time, however, I will be with you in everything you do and I will feel you with me, dear, in everything. I wish you were with in easier communic cation with my mother so that you could get the family [?] to read occasionally, or always, for there will be so much repeating. By the
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way, I have forgot whether Joy's town is Redlands or River side. Would you write to mams and tell her so that she can send Joy her grammar? I saw little Mr. Labberton yesterday, and [then?] some Ship he has not reclined my mss. yet, so that my business with him was purely of a negative quality.
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I didn't get much of an impression of his ability. He seems to be a sort of land power con cern - good inten tions, perhaps, but not there very many millions. Called tonight on the "mother" of Paul [Giffin?] - his chum's mother, and his adopted mother, hence when he was in U.C. she lives far down in the Yiddish James Appenheim's district, where every-
