ST. LOUIS, U.S.A.
My dearest Aunt Jane:
Your letter came this morning and I was mighty glad to get it. I am here at 3530 Olive now but I may go to the Hospital and stay with Charlie that is get another room so that I can be with him as much as possible for by this arrangement I am going to be unable to see him more [than] a few minutes a day. This afternoon I am going out & take the baby but I can't do that [page 2] every day because it isn't good for her to be there too much & I have no way of leaving her here. We took Charlie yesterday to the Mullanphy Hospital which was the one the doctor decided on but it was frightful-–that is the service was especially for any one as sick as Charlie is. There were two old men with grey hair & a halting step like a snail to take care of him along with twenty other people & it took them all their time getting [from] one room to the other without doing anything. We decided that the Baptist Sanitorium, [page 3] bad as it was, was better than that, so we [moved] him last evening. It was a trifle hotter this morning but the doctor gives no hopes that he will be able to leave the hospital in less than a month & perhaps it will be longer.
I thank you very much for sending the money. Now about that money. There is no telling how much we will need & of course I can't be borrowing from you all the time; do you suppose the Freeport bank would buy up the notes at a reasonable [page 4] rate of interest so that we could have it now. We probably will never need it more than we do now–- at least I hope not-–and at any rate we do need it now in some way or other. Please write me about it as soon as you can. As to your coming down, of course I should love to see you, but there is absolutely nothing you can do and Mr. Swope says that you are very busy; so it is really not necessary. I am frightfully worried about Charlie; but in [page 5] time, I suppose, he will be entirely well.
I should get the baby ready & go up now.
With very much love
From your loving niece
Esther.
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