Dear Mother & Dad,
I know you have been sweating out a letter from me but mail all from here is very slow, so you will have to except it. I am fine but the damned old rains have set in here and make things a little more miserable. We have a good tent to sleep and so maybe that will relieve your minds that I stay out of the dampness. I also sleep on a cot that I picked up so I am off the ground. I don’t believe I ever told you that I saw Mt. Vesuvius. It’s just a high mountain that reaches to a high peak and you can see the smoke coming out of it. It’s a volcano just like mount Etna in Sicily. At night you can see fire shooting out of it. It was foggy the most of the time I was near in so I couldn’t get a picture of it. I would have loved to have seen Naples but my truck wasn’t so good. I hear it is very beautiful city. I have been pretty lucky so far on seeing large cities so maybe it is catching up with me. Goodbye for now and I’ll write more later.
Your Son
“Chick”
Your Son, ‘Chick’
