CEHBates022

Billings Aug 9th,
1908.

My dear Edward

A very happy birthday
to you and a great many of them!

When I think that it is two
years since we saw you and
that you are actually fourteen it is
plain that you are much taller.

Perhaps you are as tall as Dick was
when we were there. And Jocelyn
nearly twelve! It is hard to
realize. Do you swim a great
deal still? I suppose you surely
no more stay out of the water than
so many fish. And how did
you enjoy your outing at [Linly?]