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1829 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Feb. 16th, 1887. My dear Mr. Muir: I was extremely disappointed when I heard of your visit,
and I had not seen you Twenty years is a long time. I do not suppose you would know me, if you met me, though I have not grown
much, and I doubt whether I should recognize you. But we shall soon pick up the threads, I hope. I have been consulting Dr.
Mauzy about my lame ankle and while at his house I met his wife and heard a great deal about you and your family of interest
to myself and Mamma, so I wrote her all I knew about you, but I want to see for myself your wife and the little girls. I know
I shall like them. Mr. Trumbull of San Rafael also knows you, so I feel not entirely a stranger, or that you are not a stranger
rather. Mary Merrill and I want to go to Martinez Friday, if pleasant weather. If not, Saturday. If it rains Saturday I can't
tell when it will be possible for us to go. We'll go up in the morning train, which leaves here, I think, between eight and
nine. I have no paper to look up the time. I shall telephone you at the station, if I find that I have made a mistake as to
the time. With kindest regards from us all to yourself and Mrs. Muir, I am as ever, Your friend, Janet Moores