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letterhead 01252 Jany 11 1887 John Muir Esq Martinz Cal My Dear Brother: Yours of Jany 5, came this A.M. Also the
book for Ethel and the parcel for J. which I will see at noon when I go to dinner and she opens the packages, I will speak
for them for today and when I thank you for remembering them I only say what they will report in letters very soon. The house
is a very fine one with 10 rooms, Slate roof, soft and hard water up stairs and letterhead hot and cold water, markble wash
bowls, close in house, grates and nice mantels, electric bells, good hot air furnace, hot air all over the house, plate glass
windows, hard wood floors, hard pine and walnut finish, solid cherry stair case, three large rooms in seller, being furnace
room, store room and wash rooms, also has a good Barn. the lot is 41x132, and will be wroth 200. for front foot in the near
future, is now worth 150. per foot. The announcement which which I have illegible your equity very than balances the additional
liability which