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A.H. SELLERS 34200 MICHIGAN AVE. ( 2 ) CHICAGO the business in the hot and close Canons of the city, I am sorry to
write you that the confinement here, for the past three months, has largely neutralized the good effects of a winter in California
upon my dear wife's health. I am, in a few days, going to take her up to our little cottage, at the Club house near your old
home in Wisconsin, to spend a couple of months so as to get her to live as near to the bosom of old mother earth as I can,
that she may absorb some of her great vitality. Had your letter been mailed when written, Mrs. Sellers would have written
to Mrs. Muir, but from the fact that it was mailed at Martinez, a month after it was written, shows us that you and the girls
have returned home. How I would have enjoyed being on that trip with you, I would have taken so much pleasure in seeing the
girls enjoy it, as I know they must have done. I think such a trip would make Fay a new woman. Poor girl, she has had a greatdeal
of trouble since she returned from California; first her nephew ( her oldest brother's oldest son, about 27 years of age)
died; next her sister Josie was quite ill; then her dear old mother was taken down with Pneumonia; and to cap the climax,
her brother George, who had invented a new fire-work, while stiring a mixture of phosphorus and other stuff It exploded in
his face, burning him frightfully. For several weeks it was feared he might lose his eyes, but, fortunately, they have been
saved, and while he is somewhat scarred up he is coming out of it all right. For the six weeks that he was in the hospital,
Fay was in daily attendance, and you can probably imagine the strain she was under. In fact she seems to have been under one
continuous strain of misfortunes ever since she came home, and it is not surprising that she should be paying for it now.
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