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2 much knows how wet it is in that region what illegible there is of fixing rheumatism on me But, maybe now when it comes
to the scratch, he wishes he had not offered me a pass, which was an offer? of his own exclusively Besides, I have not yet
seen Doctor Douglass I went twice to see him, but he was out. I will necessarily be guided by what he says, for I am by no
means happy over the way this confounded thing hangs on to me. But it will go hard with me if I do not now have a jolly trip
with you 3 00935 letterhead San Francisco, . 1880. Yet your pass for Victoria not for Portland. Though I think we
would be all right anyway, to go up to Astoria. The Oregon steamer leaves here on the 30th at 10 AM for Portland That leaves
14 hours of the 30th 24 hours of the 31st at least 6 hours of the 1st before the Cala wont get down to Astoria That will be
44 hours in all. When I came down the Oregon was only 36 hours, but of course going up now is much slower work