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Martinez, Feb 2, 1895 My dear Mr Sellers, Im sorry you are not feeling well, but not that the island trip is to be postponed.
It seems every way delightful kind I would enjoy it gloriously in your company but I am hard beset with literary work I have
no knack of getting it off my hands in haste. I expect to finish the first article tomorrow, then comes three more a book.
Still after I have done enough to honestly earn a rest I shall be only too glad to go there with you to see the palms ferns
that famous old fire place of nature The weather here is more delightful sunshine larksong in abundance. Mrs. Stretzel is
too much an invalid to travel Mrs M cannot leave her but Pasadena trip would