gangplank! Do hope you had no unpleasant experiences
with your cabin mates on the way over. They didn’t
look too good to me. Your father and I both thought
you were in for something, from the looks of them.
We are planning on driving down to Wilmington for Aunt
Ida’s birthday. Your father is quite busy these days and
comes home tired, so I guess one trip will be enough for
this winter. Don’t want him to get sick again.
Tho’t you might be interested in the enclosed clipping.
That Williams girl certainly didn’t lose any time finding a
new fiance, did she? Well, it seems as though practically all
your old friends were married and settled down now.
We were over at the Mott’s (Dr.) last evening after an
early movie. He is in bed with a bad kidney and we have been
several times to see them. Your father had a short visit
upstairs with him, has two male nurses & is a very sick man.
Louise, whom I don’t think you have seen in twenty years,
had come down unexpectedly to see how things were going.
She is a very attractive young woman, two children now.
She is most interested in your doings. Says she once stopped
at Tangier for an afternoon on a Mediterranean Cruise when
she was in college. Didn’t think much of it. She was
reminiscing about the good times you all used to have,
and wondered if I still made the cocoanut macaroons I used
to make. Says she never forgot them and the cookies.
Naturally I had forgotten.
Well, I am getting this in the mail today.
Please take care of your health, just for my sake.
Remember, if you lose that you lose everything. I have been
reading up on Morocco in the Encyclopaedia and I must say it
doesn’t sound so good to me. They seem to have practically
every sort of disease there. If you let yourself get run
down in any way you’re asking for trouble. I don’t imagine
the doctors over there are any too good, either, and the
hospital conditions must be very primitive.
I shall be on tenterhooks until I hear from you. Please
give Jack Wilcox my best. I hope he is able to make a go of
his business. What with all the difficulties placed in the
way of travel nowadays, both your father and I are very
dubious about it. However, he must know whether he is making
money or not. I don’t see how he can.
May and Wesley Godfrey were in the other evening, told
them all about your venture. They said to wish you good luck,
as you’d probably need it. Your father and I join with them
in the hope that everything goes off as you expect it to.
Well, here is the end of my paper so I will quit.
Love to you from
Mother
P.S. It seems it was Algiers that Louise Mott was in, not