in margin: Bidwell Papers Bancroft Library San Francisco. July 1st 1887. My dear Mrs Bidwell We thank you for your kind
invitation to Ohio. It came while I was away from home therefore too late to be available But anyhow we could not have all
left the old ranch at the same time No visit however could give me greater pleasure I was so fortunate as to see the General
the other day in full flesh stature not diminished in the least still full of melonography eriogonae.? The White cone of
Shasta looms into the sky whenever I think of Ohio How many pleasant memories cluster about it I am trying to close away
the ranch