Page 130 (1/2)

LATER

It is going to require a fortune in staet this letter to

Jamaica, but I do want you to know all the news, and we have never had

so s happen since 1876, ere founded

This fire has given us such a shock that we are going to be more alive

for years to coht to be

burned to the ground every twenty-five years in order to get rid of

old-fashioned equiplad

now that we didn't spend Jervis's ic to have had that burn I don't mind so much about

John Grier's, since he made it in a patent medicine which, I hear,

contained opium

As to the remnant of us that the fire left behind, it is already boarded

up and covered with tar-paper, and we are living along quite comfortably

in our portion of a house It affords sufficient roo room and kitchen, and more permanent plans can be

ood Lord has heard e institution!

I am,

The busiest person north of the equator,

S McBRIDE

THE JOHN GRIER HOME,

January 16

Dear Gordon: