When We Parted,
Stanton Told Me He Was Going Home And Was Going To Stay There,
And As He Was Two Years Younger Than Me, He May Still Be In New
Bedford, And As You Are On The Ground, Maybe You Can Help Me To
Find Out.
All the people that I know praise your descriptive power and now
my dear Mrs. Summerhayes I suppose you
Will have a hard time
wading through my scrawl but I know you will be generous and
remember that I went to sea when a little over nine years of age
and had my pen been half as often in my hand as a marlin spike, I
would now be able to write a much clearer hand.
I have a little bungalow on Coronado Beach, across the bay from
San Diego, and if you ever come there, you or your husband, you
are welcome; while I have a bean you can have half. I would like
to see you and talk over old times. Yuma is quite a place now; no
more adobes built; it is brick and concrete, cement sidewalks and
flower gardens with electric light and a good water system.
My home is within five minutes walk of the Pacific Ocean. I was
born at Digby, Nova Scotia, and the first music I ever heard was
the surf of the Bay of Fundy, and when I close my eyes forever I
hope the surf of the Pacific will be the last sound that will
greet my ears.
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