Dear Annie,
I recievd your most welcomed letter along with Oakleyist Aunt Effies, so I am answering them this afternoon. I guess you think I'm doing a lot of work when I'm lying in bed sleeping every morning & evening for the past few weeks, but we work form twelve midnight to eight in the morning unloading a few boats. SHips I should say. There fopr about three "months" we were working approx. seventeen to eighteen hrs a day. So you see we do work after all. Probably the hardest work is to come yet. you'll have to excuse the bad spelling I have I've almost forgotten

2/ how to spell since I've been out of school. that will be the day. When I do come home. It maybe a yr. or more until I see home again. Tell uncle Arthur to jeeo back plenty of eat for I'm going to stay with him a few days when I come back. Tell him that will be the first place I'll stop/ Maybe you'll all see more of the country then you'll expect some day. If you catch what I mean? I guess hte letter sound boresome to you sometimes for I hardly know just what to wriet from writing the same thing over again as was written before

3/ As you have noticed alrady I'm not so very good in my penmanship, but I manage to get by someay or another. I can get there by a taxi, but he won't see anything then. I hope . How would you & Oatley like to see me come in to Aunt Effies some day over the weekend? What would you two reather do write or recieve letter. I myself like to so both. You'll have to do some writting to keep up to mefor that's one thing about the other things I enjoy doing now. I'll close now so to ans Aunt Effies letter, but will write again in a few days.
Love to all
Ara