Letter to Charmian - 1940

This letter leaves us with the question of what may have happened to Charmian while her friends were waiting on her.

Nell Wilson is mentioned and this would have been Nell Griffith Wilson. She was a poet from Sonoma and founding member of the Sonoma County Branch of the League of American Pen Women. She published a number of works. Charmian wrote the forward in her book Deeper Harvest (Atlanta: Banner Press, 1936) and contributed the photograph of “Jack London looking down upon the valley from his Beauty Ranch” for her book Our Valley of the Moon in Poems and Pictures (Sonoma Index-Tribune Press, 1941). Charmian also refers to Nell as "her neighbor" in a blurb on the book jacket for The Heart Remembers (either they were true neighbors or this refers to the fact they both lived in Sonoma County, the Valley of the Moon.

This letter has "1940" handwritten on it which seems correct. According to the Utah State University Archives description, this letter is dated April 23, 1905, but this would be impossible. I think it's more likely that the letter is from April 23, 1940. There is also handwriting above the date and time that says "Sonoma Branch (?) League Am. Pen Women" which would refer to Edith as she was a member and co-editor for some time, but I am not sure who wrote this (Charmian, someone who collected the letter, the USU Archives?).