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in margin: 844 Letters of underlined: 1879 from underlined: Louie Mrs Mr Strentzel 00865 1 Sept 9, 1879 Dear John,
Sending a letter to you under present conditions seems little more certain than intrusting a message to a wild forest bird:
yet I can only try, that you may know I still exist, and that I keep you ever in remembrance. You must think it strange to
have heard no word from us during these two long months, but just now a letter came from the Postmaster at Port Townsend saying
that my note directing him to remail my letter to Fort Wrangell, reached him one day too late for the steamer