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by the great earthquake. The shock here was slight and no property was injured.

My daughter Ethel was at Sanford University when it occurred. The university is about sixty miles from San Francisco. It suffered a loss of about $4.000000 in the destruction and injury of many fine buildings. Two lives were lost, one being that of a student and six other students were quite badly injured. Communication with the outside world was immediately interrupted and it was several days before we could get direct news from Ethel. She was not injured though when the shock occurred near 5 o'clock in the morning she and her companions thought the world was coming to an end when the furniture was being tossed about the room and she could see the fine structures of the university falling into shapeless masses of stone.

It will take some time for our state to fully recovery from the effects of so great a calamity, but San Francisco will be rebuilt because of its almost matchless harbor and because it was proven that modern steel structures can stand uninjured after such an earthquake. To many of us who have known that city almost all of our lives it will not probably [be] the San Francisco of which we were so proud.

The loss resulting from the earthquake there has been estimated as not more than $10000000 but the great fire with no water to slay its progress, increased the loss to thirty times that.

Give my kindest regards to Mrs. Brayer??? and assure her that I greatly regret my inability to visit her now and that I will make a strenuous effort to see her next year. All of [us] join in sending kindest regards to you both.

Sincerely yours,
W.B. Wallace