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  • Walter E. Dandy Letter 09/19/1913

    20 Holford Square

    Percy Circus

    London, England

    September 19, 1913

    My Dear Son

    …You will have to get those stocks of yours go up in place of down. Pa is watching them very closely. The paper we get don't give them. Some of them do. Were out at the Park yesterday and there was a paper on the seat that showed the stock market. Pa says Walter is loosing it. Has gone away down. He has lost about $150 and he laughed. I felt rather blue over it. I would not make a good sport. I would want it to be going up all the time or I would be miserable. But you went in it for better or worse and will have to be game whatever way it goes, like Pa is with his gold mine. He has great confidence in it, although he has had no gold out of it yet. Some of these days he will (maybe).

    Well you think we had better come back this year. Well we would not be satisfied if we were paying $30 a month for house and furniture. It is like paying $12 for use of furniture. I think it would be better to furnish.

    But I don't see the good of us going and settling down and you thinking of taking a position some other place. We would not want to stay in Baltimore if you were not there. I think we had better stay here till you come to some definite and satisfactory conclusion what you are going to do. We would be glad to come back if you were able to decide these things.

    Your loving Mother

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