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Grand Hotel S.F. July 11, 1889 Dear Louie, I was very glad to get your letter today for somehow I was getting anxious
about your all as if instead of a week I had been gone a year had nothing but lonesome silence all the time. You must see
surely that I am getting literary for I have just finished writeing for the day it is half past 12. Last eve went to bed at
this time got up at 6 have written 20 pages today feel proud that now I begin to see the end of this article that has so long
been a black growling cloud in my sky. Some of the 20 pages was pretty good to I think. I'll copy a 01358