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A Letter from Bob Gun
it in the afternoon, found Banks in the
office talking with Addey. Went to bed,
headachy, at about 9 and read for an hour
or two.
30. Wednesday. A nine-and-a-half page
letter from Bob Gun, at Havana, enclosing two
for posting to England. Those sent to Ledger,
re-mailed by Cahill to Cuba, have not reach-
ed their intended destination. They were four
in number containing letters for his father and
mother, �St Orne,� Sutherland, McCullough,
Syme and various others, written and without
New York. As those to Ledger �contain-
ed important enclosures,� Gun requests Cahill
to inquire after the batch at the New York
P.O. He expects to return during the sum-
mer,� is going to leave Havana in a few days�
but for what place he has not yet determi-
ned. The Havana papers were full of the
fight for the championship, and there was con-
siderable betting on the result. Bob Gun,
�the only Sayers man in Havana,� backed that
hero and is prepared to do so again. He
�has kept entirely away from women and jud-
ging from his case it is a mistake that the
passions are increased by a warm climate.� He
alludes to the advertisements addressed to