as Mother doesn't need it periodically it's all right. If I spend all my pay this month I will make very little indeed do me next month. It took ten dollars out of my June pay for the pictures. You got $27 of my July pay and I had to loan Bert $10 of my August also send Price a package of smokes $2.50. The few dollars I have left will be added to September's pay. Don't worry I am and will do my best. If mother needs the money regularly I will assign $15 or bust.,

Give my love Ellie, Aunt Lizzie and Hairy,

Your old son Vernon,

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 24 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Ellen Ellison, correspondence inward, 1916.