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Martinez, May 13, 1906 Dear Cousin Margaret. I was very glad to get your letter the other day with tidings of your welfare
especially of your own Maggies health. The great earthquake did us little damage, a thousand dollars or so in the way of shattered
chimnies plaster. In San Francisco mostly by fire the devastation los is beyond measure Nevertheless in a few years the city
will rise again though the losses of thousands of poor labor people will be felt all there lifetime. 03729