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Oct. 23. /85
S. S. Cephalonia

My own darling Emmie

Everything has been lovely so far it has been quite smooth most of the way. Neither Frank nor myself have been under the weather but Jim Haynes has had his full share of it and we have had lots of fun with him in consequence. A large part of the chums on board have suffered the same way. I think they are the most disagreeable crowd, taken as a whole, that I ever sailed with; but we have managed to enjoy ourselves never the less.

There hasn't been a blessed thing to enliven this trip with except our poor whale and our little borderline boy which same boy comes from New Bedford and is the son of that artist Cummings whom Maud Doane  tells so much about

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He's the very worst boy I ever saw and knocks Arthur all out of time. He is with his uncle a young fellow who knows Miss Doane, and judging from what he said he thinks her quite lovely. Then there are lots of people whom we have given pet names to; one young fellow who is the very cheapest kind of a Columbus Ave dude we have christened Blossom, he looks so much like a real sweet little flower. He is with mother and two other ladies.

One other cove also a young fellow we call the Rangoon Warbler! He croaks or more correctly speaking sings and is going out to Rangoon. Then we have Intermediate and his son Charley: both englishmen of the worst type. We call him that because the first morning we were out he came up and accosted us with 

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