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3 long, so I hope you will forgive the brevity of this note, also the egotism which prompts me to write of my- self We have
followed you in the Overland, father is particularly interested in the last article shall look forward to the others with
infinite pleasure, hope the book will follow soon The nuts c you so kindly sent by mail from Tamalpais, 2 weeks, then
I thought I had gotten over it, but while I was in New York I discovered I had in- jured my back in some way, have now been
confined to the bed for two weeks, to- day I am sitting up, but with a pillow at my back, there is no knowing when I shall
get over it I am not strong enough to hold a pen very