Martinez, March 27 /07 Dear Mrs Bidwell Your charming invitation to visit you is one after my own heart you may be sure
one or both of us will make haste to Chico as soon as we can. But alas the old freedom to roam is mine no longer. even so
short a trip as the Rancho Chico one may have to be indefinitely postponed. Helen I are all the family now though Wanda is
not far off she her husband are living in a home of their own. I'm delighted to get tidings of you your sister Mrs Gray Sir
Joseph for I like all that blessed company so lovingly a part of dear auld lang syne.