[5 pages and a custom made postcard - 3 Hotel Whitcomb San Francisco letterheads and 2 obverse plus one blank letterhead with names of of buildings and position of hotel suite rooms indicated - see end of this letter]

[postmarked '10 Sp 24' Marine Post Office, NZ RMS Tahiti to Mr C. A. Gracie, The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd, Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia]

9th Sept 1924

Dear Mother,

We are well and truly on land at last and having a great time. After a rotten trip of bad weather and no lively passengers we finally came ashore at San Fran at about four p.m. on Friday last and came straight to the above address.

After a clean up we visited the main street of the City or rather should I say part of it as this Street, Market, is 4½ miles long.

She sure is some place and as I have not three or four days to spare at present to write about all I have so far seen I will tabulate them here and explain in detail on my return.

Chinatown

On Friday night we visited Chinatown which is a fine place in this city and then after a walk about retired for the night. We made a late start of Saturday as we did not arise until 9am and then had to get our laundry ready and that was a big job after our three weeks travelling then down town to see the sights - wandered around all day part of the night trying to get our bearings in such an immense place.