Love and best wishes to you all---- DICK.
June 8th, 1900.
On board the Kausler.
DEAR MOTHER: We engaged our passage on this ship some weeks ago not thinking we would have the English near Pretoria until August.

But as it happened they came so near that we did not know whether or not to wait over and see them enter the capital.

I decided not, first, because after that one event, there would be nothing for us to see or do.

We could not leave until the 2nd of July and a month under British martial law was very distasteful to me.

Besides I did not care much to see them enter, or to be forced to witness their rejoicing.