This was my brother's first effort as a war correspondent, and I presume it was this fact and the very indefiniteness of the original plan that caused his mother and father so much uneasiness.

And, indeed, it did prove eventually a hazardous exploit.
way to Key West.
December 19, 1896.
DEAR MOTHER: I hope you won't be cross with me for going off and not letting you know, but I thought it was better to do it that way as there was such delay in our getting started.

I am going to Cuba by way of Key West with Frederic Remington and Michaelson, a correspondent who has been there for six months.

We are to be taken by the Vamoose the fastest steam yacht made to Santa Clara province where the Cubans will meet us and take us to Gomez.

We will stay a month with him, the yacht calling for copy and sketches once a week, and finally for us in a month.