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[Imprinted writing paper:

[top right corner:]
GEORGE L. MAYNE, MANAGER

[illustration of building]
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF

HOTEL CHURCHILL
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
NINTH AND C STREETS

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, ]

we can go up to see you. It takes
six days for a letter from here
they say to Key West. Can you
write him? I mean would it be
allowed – I should think so – not
wire but write –

Dearest love, we must all be brave
and we will try. I am ashamed
of my weakness –

God bless and Keep you always
and bring you Safe home to us
Soon – Bowers of love

Mother.

Dicks address is
U.S.S. Cincinnati. C/o Postmaster New York.
or by wire c/o Bureau of Navigation. Washington
D.C.