The Cottage Hospital is a not-for-profit care center in Santa Barbara.
The snow storm they got into between Hanford and Glendale was very likely in the Transverse Ranges, what Californians now call "the Grape Vine" for a stretch of Interstate 5 cutting through the Tejon Pass between the Tehachapi Mountains and the San Emigdio Mountains. In 1949 that would have been State Route 99 (also known at one point as US 99).
This was an empty envelope. Perhaps Hazel had sent other mail inside it, though normally she just forwarded any mail since it would already have been stamped. Or maybe she sent a check.
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