SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



November 29, 1918. 



Dear Mr. Deanei 



I have good news for you, at last. We have just 

 received word that Papa and George left Panama last 

 Sunday, the twenty -fourth, on the "Panama" . They 

 will be home in another week if all goes viell. They 

 have been in Panama for a week, waiting for a ship 

 for all the boats had been taken off to bring the men 

 home from Europe, We are so relieved. Papa has 3500 

 pounds of baggage. In their last letter from Ecuador 

 they spoke of having received a letter from you togeth- 

 er with twenty-five envelopes from us. This was after 

 a silence of severSlweeks . Papa says that he has lost 

 twenty pounds and at least two inches around the waist. 



Wouldn't you like to go to the Peace Conference 

 at Versailles? What would you do with Uie Kaiser? 



We shall miss the kakhi uniforms here in Washington 

 although it will be probably be many months before they 

 are all gone. Have you noticedin the Castialty List the 

 number of names of New England boys. Tliis was especial- 

 ly true at first. 



With dearest love, 



