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[[preprinted]] Tuesday, September 7, 1909 [[/preprinted]] 

Oh, but business is punk these days. It was good up to a month or so ago,- then the cotton market at home went a-ballooning and the elephant retired altogether to his lair. So that now things are fast approaching that somnolent state that can only be described as putrid.

We are all hanging on in hopes.

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[[preprinted]] Wednesday, September 8, 1909 [[/preprinted]] 

Pickering and Parr and King came over tonight, and paid 34 points for the dinner. There's friendship for you.