CEHBates_JanFeb1919_023g

[Letterhead] Hotel Alexandria [centered]
Los Angeles [centered]

is getting on splendidly now — has been
out in the air today & yesterday
but as it appears now that it
was Flue he had instead of
a billious fever we have to be
very [underlined] careful — to avoid chill
or exertion — The heart is so
affected in this disease that I
am told on all sides how
careful we must be of exertion
etc.

Poor Father we think had it &
perhaps I — at Xmas time.
We did not know it at the
time but later called in to
Reynolds & father seemed so