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01059 4 be sure to do so as it is not an easy trip in the stage. Thanks for your new years greeting. I am quite well,
and never came out of a long term of school feeling better than I did this fall. I hear frequently from my eastern friends
and Jessie is at home now feeling quite well excepting that her throat gives her some trouble as it did when here. Byron Hewitt?
is still at P. du Chin, and is happy in having a little girl to brighten his home. She is their only child and is nearly a
year old now. Uncles family are urging me to come home to them in Englewood in the Spring, and I think some of going. Mr Knox
has grown old rapidly in the last few years. and is far from well. Come and 1 Brownsville Yuba Co Cal. Jan 6th 1882
Dear old friend a happy new year. It has been months since I heard of you by the papers and still many months more since I
saw your familliar handwriting. How are you? and where? Busy at home perhaps, with writing and wife and baby. Perhaps busy
climbing I shall be glad to know. Don t say I wrote you last for I have written you since I heard from you last winter or
spring. I am requested by Mrs Knox to write and remind you of a promise once made her in margin: see us my dear friend. Yours
sincerely Emily - I expect to go to Chico in the coming month.