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in margin: 482 1885 Carmilita June 11. Dear Dr. The enclosed letter will explain itself. Mrs Jackson is one of our
most gifted women authors but as 'crochety' as it is the privilege of genius to be. She broke her leg early in the fall, a
' commcrated? compound fracture' and came for the third time to Los A. to winter. She laid in a crowded boarding house with
bad courage, and taking little bodily exercise - was even poisoned. She has fallen into the hands of a vanity? of homeopaths
who make a good thing of it I fancy. I thought our friend John would laugh one of his awful laughs at this innocent abroad
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