[Hotel Campbell, postmarked Chicago Oct ?18 6.30pm]

15th Oct 1924

My dear Mother,

We do not know when the mails go out to Aussie since arriving here so we are forced to take pot luck and write at intervals.

Since my last letter I have received yours telling of the Artists Ball. It must have been some show. I was very pleased to hear that you were all well and that your cold had completely gone. I have a bit of a one at present be nothing to worry about, still I am doping it so as to be quite O.K. then I leave for Chicago tomorrow night. Bill is showing a big improvement and will be nearly right again I think when we leave this place where everyone spends their time talking of their ailments.

We expect to be in New York in about 10 days time after having seen Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo and Niagara and from there we go on to England so from now on our address will be c/o Bank NSW 29 Threadneedle St, London EC but you will have a wire from the Treloar's saying we have left America.

Well for news I am a bit stuck as nothing much happens in this town of cripples so this letter needs must be short I think.