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done our level damndest and no angel couldn’t do no 
more. ”’ 
Think of me always as your loving son who has 
married your loving daughter, 
Tom. 
Ketcham looks and seems well and happy. 
Also Arthur Gardner. 
All W. A.’s family send love and are fine and 
healthy. 
Cousin Fan seems perfectly well. 
W. A. is crazy at having us here and we are glad 
to be here too I can tell you. 
1404 Harrison St., 
Oakland, Cal., August 1, 1907. 
Dear Pa : 
I was surprised to receive a letter from you, the 
second in ten months and I shall write to you first, to 
say that I am delighted to hear from you. Our trip 
across the Pacific was fine, calm and beautiful, and 
the seventeen days went by very quickly. We sighted 
California about 8.380 on Tuesday morning, but did 
not dock until 5.30 that evening, so we could not get 
our trunks through the custom house that day. Mr. 
Barbour and Mr. Arthur Gardner came out in the 
customs’ launch to meet us and it was certainly pleas- 
ant to meet relatives again. Mr. Barbour put in a 
word at the custom house for us and so we got our 
handbags and Tom’s beetle chest through unopened 
that night. Yesterday Tom and Mr. Barbour went 
over to Frisco bright and early and got the rest of the 
things through, very easily and quickly. He declared 
everything — left out nothing — and as a result paid 
