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2387 S. Lucerne Ave
Los Angeles 
May 19/31 noon

Dear Doris

Your letter has just come. Evidently you had not received my air mail letter when you wrote but it must have come immediately after you mailed yours for I sent it on Monday May 11 the day I recd. Ralph's telegram. I was a good deal upset over it all last week but am feeling a little better this week. It makes me more anxious than ever to get home. Where are what few relatives I have left. I do feel very anxious for both Ralph & Maude but I am afraid it will have a worse effect on Ralph than on Maude for I do not think Ralph has been very well for some time past & I think he has had fits of depression that are a bad foundation for a shock like this. Maude is one of the comfortable temperament that do not feel very keenly I think but of course she was so completely mopped up in Ralph In that it will be a terrible loss & blow to her. Well I do wish I were there to try & do