Please let me know if I can help—I need not say how glad I shall be to do so. "Help" would go with this were I sure about you and the post-office. It's a mighty bad business and one does not need to own property out there to be "hit hard" by it. One needs only to have friends there.
We are helpless here, so far as the telegraph is concerned—shall not be able to get anything on the wires for many days, all private dispatches being refused.
Pray God you and yours may be all right. Of course anything that you may be able to tell me of my friends will be gratefully received.
Sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce.
[8] The San Francisco earthquake and fire had occurred April 18, 1906.
Washington, D. C.,
May 6,
1906.
Dear George,
Your letter relieves me greatly. I had begun to fear that you had "gone before." Thank you very much for your news of our friends. I had already heard from Eva Croffie. Also from Grizzly.
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