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STAFFORD & WARD
REAR OF 28 WEST BAY STREET
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
Oct 7th

My dear Miss Hartzell:
I do not know if you are a
believer in transmition of thoughts, but I am. I
have been thinking of you for the past ten days.
I felt ashamed of myself for not answering your
last letter. I will tell you just how it happened.
I kept putting it off from day to day. You know
how much I dislike writing. I do so little of
it I forget how to spell or form my letters.
The fact of it, I am ashamed of myself but,
when it comes to drawing & figures & plans, I
am right dar. I do all of that for the firm.
You see we have three in the office so I fake
all the writing off on them. I think I can best
anyone here at mentle calculation, but spelling
& writing, I never could do or I don't want
to learn so, you see, it is cronic (/) with me & a hopeless
case. I would have very few friends in
this world if I had to correspond with them.
Now, my dear little girl, you know it all so I
hope you will think as kindly of me as you can
under the circumstances &, if you say it is only
a bad habit, I have gotten in to do not.