Beginning on November 1, 2024, which is the date of my mother’s first letter from her Hawaii trip 84 years ago, I am serializing day by day, the book,
Cecilia
King’s Extraordinary Senior Trip, which you can obtain from Amazon in either Kindle
or paperback.  

I hope you enjoy the upcoming nine-months in Hawaii 1940-41. You can order the entire book from Amazon in either paperback or Kindle
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Honolulu, Sunday, July 13, 1941

July 13

Dear Mother and Daddy,

Your letter came yesterday when the house was full of people, making sandwiches & stuff for a picnic – I’m sorry that you’re so upset about my dates for coming home, but you’re
not a bit more than I am – everyday I’ve been waiting thinking Castle & Cook would call giving me a date – I’ve put my name in for July boats & can do absolutely nothing until a passage is opened. And it’s no fun for me just sitting on my spank not being able
to do a thing about “when.”

I’ve been going in a twirl for the past week – this morning talked for hours with Mrs. Bernheim helping plan a party for the guest coming next week – and it’ll be a WOW with
all would be swell. They’re marvelous practically a pullman compared with the nasty, smoky, dirty regular coaches. I will order Mrs. G. Fish net floats (5 x 0.75 = $3.75).

Will go on & mail this airmail so you will at least know all I do about dates for coming home – 11th, 16th & 17th & 22nd of July. I have my name in for passage — & I will let
you know immediately anything I find out further.

I have written several people about rush dates, etc. If you see Ellen Riddles’ sister who wanted to write for me last year will you drop the bug to her, please? I’ve written
Libbo too.

Love, Cecilia

the drips she has on the invitation list – and the way she’s dating some of the girls. Think I’ll ask Bryan Arnold for my date. I was so unhappy Tues. because we had this date
for weeks, and I was so excited over it – then that day he was conditioning his men and strained an ankle to degree of Dr’s orders to keep off it, & not being able to get together for a weekend date, he’s to call me next week when he’s in from the field. Tues.
night Budge Meridith called & wanted to see me, but related to the sad fact that he had only 6 cents – so I told him to come on out & we had a wonderful time. He’s an engineer for some machinery co. – just back from 4 years in the Philippines (some natives
attached him there, clipping off an ear, & he had to have a steel plate in his skull, & for a while he was half paralyzed). He’s been haunting my tracks for months. Tonight he & I, Beth & Gifford went to the Elks carnival – more fun! Ferris wheels, Hey-Guys,
“vod vil.” Then we all four went to the Elks Park & sat under a big Banyon tree & sang while Budge played his guitar. He is really awfully nice.

Yesterday we (Dick, Jim & I) went to take pictures of the Kam Day parade – everyone on the island had a holiday in honor of good old King Kam. Then we assembled at DeRussy for
the picnic, came here to make sandwiches – then headed for the Nanakuli Beach.^[1]
The surf was swell & swimming grand – then supper around a big fire on the beach. There were four couples, including the newest Air Corps discovery, “Coon-Dog.”

Yesterday I met Bunt down at the Outrigger Club (the aristocrat of Hawaiian sporting clubs) for swimming – a lovely big beach and just enough surf to have fun. The surf at Nanakuli
is really too strong and dangerous. We had lunch down the beach at the Halekulani Hotel^[2]
terrace – a lovely cool lawn and courts, and we didn’t have to change from our bathing suits.

I think it would be better if you could, to get my train ticket in Little Rock & send it to Ellen to give me. I will write F. Ellen the dates of the first choices I gave for
ships – but just can’t know anything more definite. If you could get my ticket on one of those fast tourist class trains, it

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