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Kansas City Mo. Nov. 7. 1885. Dear Sister Mary I have been looking for a word from you but will not wait longer fearing
that you may not be as well as usual after the fatigue of travel and all you passed through here. Sarah wrote me that you
did not remain long in Portage. Maggie and John remained her only one day after you, and John Muir and Annie started? the
following Wednesday; and as Annie Hanson went home the same day, declaring herself tired out, we were left entirely alone.
Walter, Ethel, and myself? . It seems inexpressibly desolate. 28