2034-1/2 Highland Ave., Hollywood.

My dear James:

We have thought of you and spoken of you often since we left the East but the time has passed rapidly with little time for letters. Charlotte seems to have regained her health completely and is very happy here. The time we spent at La Jolla, near San Diego, was especially beneficial to her as she spent the hours of every day on the cliffs and beach, and in a month she had become vigorous and strong again. We had a little cottage there and lived such a quiet, simple life and enjoyed it thoroughly.

La Jolla is a little place that is becoming quite famous in California because of its picturesque location, stretching along the sea and around the most charming bay with the mountains rising behind. The climate there is almost uniform throughout the year. Our journey out to Southern California was most interesting through the wonderful Carisso Gorge of the Southern Pacific route and the desert; and we found La Jolla to be all friends had pictured it. Often as we walked along those beautiful cliffs or lay in the sun on the beach below I thought of your consular experiences and wished one of the hovering aircraft might drop you down beside us for an hour to enjoy the brilliant sun and air with us.

We came up to Hollywood on the 11th and have a dear apartment here where we shall remain during the visit of Jenabe Fazel to Los Angeles and the surrounding communities. Our life here is quite different from before as we are constantly in the arms of the Bahai friends, as it were, being taken to speak at meetings in every direction or entertained in the warm western way. On the 21st, the Bahai New Year, the Unity Feast at Glendale was quite a remarkable gathering--more than a hundred interesting people in a beautiful home, their lighted faces so eager to welcome us and receive the greetings of the friends in the East. M. and Madame Dreyfus-Barney of Paris, old friends of mine, are also in Hollywood now, Laura's mother having built a charming home here recently.

The friends are all on tip-toe about Jenab's coming on the first. He has been lecturing for a month at a time throughout the northwest and is now completing a very fine program in San Francisco. Here the committee have arranged a great many engagements and his time will be very full. On the 9th there will be held a Fellowship Dinner at the City Club where all the organizations and churches who have opened their doors to him will be guests of honor and speakers. About two hundred are expected to be present. Of course there will be a well-known representative of your race.

At La Jolla some one told me that you had been out here last year--- I had forgotten it if I ever heard you refer to it. If there is anybody here you especially want me to meet, let me know or send them to look me up. I spoke on Friday night about our Inter-racial work of the East at the Los Angeles meeting. I imagine Charlotte and I will go up to San Francisco about the first of May and then stop in Chicago a few days on our way home. It will have been a very interesting experience for us in every way.

I sincerely hope you have been well this winter and are happy and content at heart. Some time in the spring I hope it will be possible to go over and see you and meet again dear, sweet Grace, perhaps in your own home. Charlotte and I have the prospect of Europe for next winter as Roger will be at college and Mr. Boyle talks of going across for a couple of months. Thus it may seem best either to rent or close the house and have Charlotte continue her education abroad--we are not sure. Here she has been studying a little, especially enjoying some art work in oils. You know she has quite a gift and had never used this medium. At La Jolla I let her have some lessons and her work is quite creditable.

I wish you would write to me! I know what a task it is for you but it is such a joy to me. I think of you always in the tenderest way and don't want to burden you with letter-writing, but when a long time goes by am apt to wonder if you are entirely well, or how life is treating you. Charlotte sends you love as always and so do I. Faithfully yours, Louise.