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4 to me. Again thanking you for your kind consideration tendering a heartfelt invitation to yourself wife to make us a
visit whenever you may find it to be convenient. I am as ever Yours Very truly illegible Gibbons. 01113 Alameda Nov.
4th. 1883 Dear John If I have failed in a prompt acknowledgement of your beautiful acceptable present, it has not been
because of the absence of a proper appreciative feeling toward both giver gift. I opened that box in the presence of my wife;
I told her it contained grapes from your vineyard the fruits of your own toil. But when the lid came off the inertia of feeling
seemed to start off like a streak of lightening, we both exclaimed in the fullness of delight, over the richness beauty of
their grouping. The flavor was every thing that could be asked for; but this sunk into insignificance