1 letterhead Cairo Nov 19, 03 Dear Louie Wanda Helen all of you. I wish I could get a letter from you saying you were
well But alas that seems impossible so I can only hope pray. I've been up the Nile as far as the 1st Catar illegible at Aswan,
about 700 miles from the sea. I went by steamer returned by rail. The trip was interesting in many ways 03309 2 The
noble famous ful? old stream laden with fertile mud from the hot? heart of the continent - the millions of date palms in groves
lines along its banks,- the broad green fields of corn milles of sugar cane bounded in the hot hazy distance by brown yellow
illegible rts where sand is ever in motion by the winds. The curious mud villages mud-colored inhabitants the wonderful ruins
of great cities temples obelisks etc pyramids tombs etc