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Martinez Sep 13, 1889 My dear Mr Johnson, Your telegram letters reached me in due time I fancy you think me deadly dumb,
so I am nearly. I have been stupidly busy that is my only excuse. A horde of oriental heathen besides Swiss Dutch Irish etc
to look after, Pic.Cal. into the bargain. By shutting myself up in a room of the Old Grand for two weeks I made out to wriggle
through the woods of Washington over the waters of Puget Sound. Then came howls for the Columbia I shut myself up again from
grapes heathen for a week but I am still entangled in the woods where rolls the O