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Wednesday Oct.7

Dear Waldo
I keep writing to Punta Arenas because I dont know where else to write. You've mentioned now that you may not get to Valparaiso at all so I dare not write there until I know. The dress suit arrived and is duly hanging up. 
Before lighting the stove I took a look at the chimney and horrors! The top was full of holed due to crumbling of bricks and looked very shaky so while I had planned to get a man to fix it (I hated to bother Bryant with it) Grandma spilled the beans so to say and told him about it so he came with cement and patched it up but says that you [[underlined]] must [[/underlined]] attend to it soon as all the bricks are simply crumbling to pieces.