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The Idan-Ha Hotel
Boise, Idaho
May 26, 1908
Dear Bertie:
I am still here, and will be for several days yet.
The deal I have on with the U.S. Geological Surveyors Office will be a big one, and the estimate as I now have it figured amounts to over $1,000.
I will likely get the data for it closed tomorrow.
I shall have to supervise some drawings, etc., made by the department's draftsman and it has consumed lots of time.
When I get this off my hands it will probably require two or three days to do the rest of the city.
I will therefore leave here the latter part of the week for Payette, Ida., where I expect to spend Sunday next.
I am so anxious for some word from you that I hardly know what to do.
Today I sent instructions to Payette, Ida., for the Postmaster to forward any mail there for me, to Boise.
So I will probably have any mail you may have sent there for me, at Boise tomorrow or day after.
I do hope this may find you all on the road to recovery and "enjoying yourselves."
I am mailing you another copy of a local paper, "marked," which has an item in reference to Madame Nordica, that I thought you might enjoy.
Oh, for a little while at home!
It seems that the time is so long coming for my return.
I am keeping quite as well as usual, and I think from present impressions I would be satisfied to make my home here.
It seems more like what we have been used to than a great many western towns I have seen.
It is now quite late, so I will mail this, and then go to my room, and "lie me down to pleasant dreams" of home and loved ones.
With a sweet good night for you and the little ones, and with lots of love, I am,
Lovingly your husband,
Geo. W. D.
