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[[Letterhead: -- THE NEXT STEP ONE YEAR - - - 10c INSIDE CHICAGO - -15c TELEPHONE STATE HEADQUARTERS The Socialist Party of Illinois 803 W. MADISON STREET ROOM 313 GUY UNDERWOOD, ACTING STATE SEC'Y MAY WALDEN, WOMAN'S STATE CORRESPONDENT ON NATIONAL COMMITTEE: ADOLPH GERMER JOHN C. KENNEDY DUNCAN MCDONALD]]

[[In pencil in upper right margin -- [1915]]] 

crossed-out -- Chicago, Tampa, Friday 4 p.m. Darling Tafern, - Well, I've had the gayest, happiest time the past week of any since I left N.Y. Have been on the go most of the time. Once to John's Pass Mitchells Beach for bathing and "shelling," once to Tampa Bay for same, then up the Manatee River - a lovely little trip! - over to Passe a Grille bathing and shelling, and finally the trip back to Tampa this morning where I persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Elliott to accompany me. We went car riding all over the place then had dinner at the "Dairy Kitchen," then over to the depot to find the train had changed time and I was left by 10 minutes! So nothing to do but to stay all night. I found a cheap hotel, kept by an elderly couple and got a room for 50 cents for the night. Then we all went down to the boat and played 3 hand euchre until time for the boat to leave. I got off and waved at them until I couldn't see them any longer. Then I went to buy some ribbon I forgot to get in St. Petersburg and now I'm sitting in the big Catholic church where it is cool, to write this letter. Today when we were car riding we saw an entirely naked youngster sitting on the front steps of his home, one of a lot of little houses. His brown skin named him a Creole We went out to West Tampa and saw the largest