CEHBates_JanFeb1919_020g

today written on Xmas Eve — He
was quite homesick & he said
longing for a "home Christmas".
There was nothing doing there
he said not even a Turkey
to be had! He had gotten a
box of "Eats" principally from me —
a very [underlined] little bought pudding &
cake — because I did not feel
up to making pudding this
year — He mentions incidentally
only that the Cincinnati is the
Flagship which we had not
known before! Thats why he
said before neither the Captain
nor Admiral would approved of his