My dear Stanley --
I had meant to send you a hundred dollars a month & later money for the Ford, but it seems to me on the whole better to send it all at once so that you can use it as you think best, so I have sold a bond to Mary Smith who has written home to have a check for one thousand dollars sent to you on April 1st. I am very anxious that you should keep out $100.00 [illegible] [page 2] to be used in March, April and May so that you won't feel hurried about going back to work. That, with the $200, for the doctor's bill [etc] will use up the first half. I hope the second half will buy the Ford and put up the garage. The point in buying it now is that you may have it to get the milk and eggs and other things that you will need to have for some months. However I don't want [page 3] to insist on this if you and Myra think you could use the five hundred to better advantage on the place. This will be the last sum I can put into the ranch and [its] equipment outside of the sum I have provided for each year.
I haven't had the bill for the birthday presents, I am anxious to think of you as settled down into a comfortable davenport.
I do hope that the woman who was [illegible] [page 4] and that Myra is not overdoing. You have both been under a long strain and must try to rest and go easy. We left Florida yesterday and are enjoying this fine old city in which Mary Smith has many old school friends. She sends her love to you and Myra as does your loving Aunt Jane
P.S. Please acknowledge the check promptly, addressing the letter to 12 ↑West↓ Walton Place, I get a little nervous to hear [illegible]
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