So I said I would, and now I am waiting to see what is going to happen.

Outside, Chadwick told me that something in the way of an experience would probably come off, so I have hopes.

By this time, of course, you know all about it.

I shall finish this later.
We began bombarding Matanzas twenty minutes after I wrote the above.
It was great.

I guess I got a beat, as The Herald tug is the only one in sight.
DICK.
Flagship--Off Havana April 30th, 1898.
DEAR FAMILY: You must not mind if I don't write often, but I feel that you see The Herald every day and that tells you of what I am seeing and doing, and I am writing so much, and what with keeping notes and all, I haven't much time-- What you probably want to know is that I am well and that my sciatica is not troubling me at all--Mother always wants to know that.