Of course, what they ought to serve is rice and beans as fried bacon is impossible in this heat.

Still, every one is well.

This is the best crowd to be with--they are so well educated and so interesting.

The regular army men are very dull and narrow and would bore one to death.

We have Wood, Roosevelt, Lee, the British Attache, Whitney and a Doctor Church, a friend of mine from Princeton, who is quite the most cheerful soul and the funniest I ever met.