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Richmond to arrange with Herbert Jackson
to take up all the rail. We are actively preparing for it now; and should
be on the way with it in two or three weeks. We have had two deals practically
closed, but a quibble has delayed them. We are now going to take it up
and stack it so that it can be immediately delivered whenever a deal is
consumated.
Then I have plans that I will take up with you boys, and
which I am sure will meet with you approval; for they will put us all
where we can be independent of dictation always; and in that position
we can do many things that will make life more pleasurable than it has
sometimes been for us.
Some of the expressions over the armistice have been amusing,
but none more so than the break that Pete Burnett made this morning. In
discuss- ing with Jim Dowling and Lyle the fate of the Kaiser he said
that as far as he was concerned he very particularly wanted them to get
that "damned old dutch scoundrel, old Bolshevik and hang him". He was
so very enthusiastic over the proposition that he would not hear to cor-
rection by Jim and repeated what he had himself to say.
I will write again as soon as I get back from Okahumpka;
and by that time we certainly should hear from you. I could not get an
E.F.M. cable through and the wires are so crowded that nothing could be
done with a straight message.
All of us are well and join in the love of our hearts to
you. God bless you, the dearest of our dear boys. Good bye
Your affectionate father,
Frank Drew
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