Dear apap
I hope you are well when are you coming home I would like to see you today. little Annie says when are you going to send her birth present. little Jessie and Annie have the stunchach (*) this morning they ate grapes yesterday Jessie has a skin nose. papa we had an awfuful storm har You aufht to see Mama she was A we were up all night I thin git the old house was coming down Well dear papa I must close with lots of love and kisses
from you little girl Louise Shore

Notes:

The family lived at 230 Sandmeyer Street, San Antonio when Louise wrote this to her father. He was stationed at Camp Warren, Bisbee, Arizona.

Louise was nine years old. Her sisters Annie was six and Jessie not quite four.

(*) stomach ache