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2 I found your first letter waiting for me, when I reached home- the day after seeing you, and I have been meaning to answer
it- but our servant? left us and I have been very busy doing house-work. I do think it is it is so good of you to take such
an interest in our next summers trip, and we will go to see you when we get back from the mountains next summer and be as
unhurried as trees. You may be very sure it was the greatest pleasure to m illegible 3 and to me to see you that rainy
day, and we both regretted our engagements in San Francisco that night. I am much surprised to hear Mr. Gannett is going to
Ma illegible s, and I hope he will enjoy the trip as much as illegible illegible did - but she went? for pleasure and he is
going on what you rightly call that? dismal arithmetical census? business. Mr. Gannett and Dr. Merriam call me Helen as well
as Mr.