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Letterhead: Superior Court Chambers
Tule County, Cal.
W.B. Wallace, Judge

Visalia Cal. [dated] June 7, 1906

Dear Mrs. Bartlett,

You must pardom me for the long delay in answering your letter reminding me of my promise to visit my Kentucky kinsmen this year. Since April 18th, a day of disaster in this state, all plans for the present year had to be re-formed and in many cases abandoned. We have all been living in a state of uncertainty.

Every day since April 18th up to last Monday has been a legal holiday. It became necessary for the Governor to declare successive holidays in order that the banks throughout the state could arrange to safely ??? business and that the Legislature might be convened in extra session and enact some new laws necessary to protect property rights suddenly imperiled by the great calamity that befell San Francisco and other near by places on that date. A cessation of judicial business for forty five days has left the trial courts with congested dockets rendering it necessary for most of the judges to continue holding court during the usual summer period for vacation. Unhappily I find myself in this situation and I will be unable to leave the state during this year.

It would be an exceptional pleasure to me to see and know Mrs. McBoayer??? and I shall make a special effort to arrange to visit her sometime next year when I shall also have the pleasure of meeting you also.

Fortunately none of us were injured [continued on following page]