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1 Ranch in the foothills two miles from La Grange Merced Co Cal'a. Apr 17th 69 Dear brother Dan Your letter of Feb 22'
reached me a few days ago over on Dry Creek where I was engaged in the wooly work of sheepshearing I am glad to hear that
unto David a son is born, that you have discovered a profession a girl, that you can cordially make you own. I have always
maintain? ed that the Scotch are the salt of the earth, the French are more off illegible illegible . The illegible more lively
graceful the Germans more dreamy? imaginative, but for real kindness of heart - depth of intellect all of the graver-higher
attributes of humanity the sons of Coladonia are unequalled in margin: I mean to go to South America next winter, then to
Europe. Then however the plains mountains of Cala are glorious again with innumerable flowers. It is raining today. The peaks
of the Sierras are covered in clouds. My illegible is illegible . Covered address Hopeton's as before.