Transcription:
(1) Martinez Oct. 29, 1889 My dear Mr Johnson - I am very sorry to learng that my dullness stupidity has occasioned
so much trouble. I have not failed however through carelessness I began that confounded letter a dozen times could never make
anything satisfactory out of it. It now lies has lain on my table for more than a month, a scrawny orderless mass of fragments.
You would have written such a letter in half