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00749 letterhead Los Angeles, Cal. Aug 12th 1877 Dear Mrs Carr Ive seen your sunny Pasadena the patch called yours,
Everything about here pleases me I felt sorely tempted to take Dr Congars advice invest in an orange patch myself. I feel
sure you will be happy here with the Doctor Allie among so rich a luxuriance of sunny vegetation How you will dig dibble in
that mellow loom, I cannot think of you standing erect for a single moment unless it be in looking away out into the dreamy
west. I made a fine shaggy little five days excursion back in the heart of the San Gabriel Mountains, and then a week of real
pleasure with Congar resurrecting the past about Madison He has a fine little farm fine little family fine cozy home.