The Idan-Ha Hotel Boise, Idaho May 26, 1908 Dear Bertie: I am still here, and will be for several days yet. The deal I have on with the U.S. Geological Surveyors Office will be a big one, and the estimate as I now have it figured amounts to over $1,000. I will likely get the data for it closed tomorrow. I shall have to supervise some drawings, etc., made by the department’s draftsman and it has consumed lots of time. When I get this off my hands it will probably require two or three days to do the rest of the city. I will therefore leave here the latter part of the week for Payette, Ida., where I expect to spend Sunday next. I am so anxious for some word from you that I hardly know what to do. Today I sent instructions to Payette, Ida., for the Postmaster to forward any mail there for me, to Boise. So I will probably have any mail you may have sent there for me, at Boise tomorrow or day after. I do hope this may find you all on the road to recovery and “enjoying yourselves.” I am mailing you another copy of a local paper, “marked,” which has an item in reference to Madame Nordica, that I thought you might enjoy. Oh, for a little while at home! It seems that the time is so long coming for my return. I am keeping quite as well as usual, and I think from present impressions I would be satisfied to make my home here. It seems more like what we have been used to than a great many western towns I have seen. It is now quite late, so I will mail this, and then go to my room, and “lie me down to pleasant dreams” of home and loved ones. With a sweet good night for you and the little ones, and with lots of love, I am, Lovingly your husband, Geo. W. D.