To Bertha from CC Ballou –
Chicago
June 14, 1919
My dear Specks,
Thank you so much for the photo. It is very good. I was sorry not to get home for my birthday, but my letters were on a strike, and the day was spend with dentist!!! My upper bridge _____ of the eye, _____ _____ and on the same ______ tooth to which it was _____ was loose, so that, which the bridge was _____ in two, the tooth dropped out of my jaw!!
Don’t know when I can get home, probably not before the last of the month. Mamma never wrote me what Lenn is doing. The referred to “a ______ _____away,” but did not tell me where he went or what he is doing and earning, or if he’s making a living. I owe her at least two letters but today I am catching up on work that got behind doing my four days with the dentist.
Love to all. Awfully glad _____ the _____.
Your loving _____.