buy them
for me.Be
assured
that they
are much
appreciated.Mother
unites
with me in
thanking
you.
Affectionately,
Father
Golf House
Lakewood,
NJ May
9th, 1917
Dear Son，
A brief
word
only！History
is making
so
rapidly,I
can hardly
keep up
with
it,but
this fact
is being
very
forcibly
impressed
upon my
mind that
my
individual
ability to
do things
for others
is only a
fraction
of what it
was before
the
Government
took a
first
mortgage
on my
possessions
