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Original in possession of Mr. Charles Moores. Martinez, July 2,1891 My Dear Janet: I was glad to get your fine spacious
all-round-the family letter. We too have had our share of Grippe things that make pain trouble even in so good a love-filled
world as this. I suppose that through Annie you have heard of the death of Dr. Strantzel. How great the loss only those who
have suffered may know. The family is broken like a house torn asunder half taken away. Little Helen only four years old we
feared would follow him with a broken heart. Even now we have to keep her out of the parlor where his portrait hangs for at
sight of it without saying a word her eyes fill for hours or days all our efforts to comfort her are in vain. Wanda is a
big rosy girl so much like a woman I am frightened would fain keep her a baby in sweet sinless babyland. But on a swift flood
we are all borne forward only when I am in the wilderness is this current invisible, where one day, is a thousand years a
thousand years one day. Last summer I was among the grand crystal glaciers of Alaska this summer I spent three weeks in the
King's River Yosemite - one of my favorite haunts in the old free Sierra times. I am now trying to write about it for the
Century must haggle through the job in some way for the illustrations for the article are already made they are calling for
copy.