Transcription:
Martinez, California June 16, 1904. Dear old friend William Trout. I am delighted to hear from you wish you could
come see us. A second letter from you has just arrived but the great long one you mention with a draft from Charlie Jay, sent
about the time I left home has never arrived. Mrs Muir says no such letter came as she examined all my mail piled it into
a box for safe keeping until my return, I have gone carefully through the whole talas of a pile no such letter is among them