{Letterhead of the Empire Hotel}
Rosebud Creek, Alta
Sept. 10, 1918

Dear Tom:
Arrived here last night to my dearest mama. She certainly welcomed me! The camera was shipped yesterday to your address. Please send the $70 to me here for I am buying another camera & I need the money, you know that. Don’t delay, old tap! I am needing it badly. Say, I wrote to Graphina to express my mandolin, will you see that they send it at once? Help them to pack it up & send at once.
There is very few people in this world that have been as good to me as my mama is. She takes the best of care of me & feeds me well. I am sorry I did not come here & don’t

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go to Coleman at all. You see the way Graphina treated me I should not write to her and absolutely disown her. She is not mine cousin any more, you may be sure of that. You are the only folks I will ever care for. Don’t tell her this, but believe me I am through with her, alright. I should have come here when I first got sick and I would have been all fixed up a month ago. I am feeling very good now. I will come back [to] Coleman in a few weeks or so. Regards to all in the house. Send the pictures here – Box 45.
Brother Demetrius
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