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Martinez. Cal. July 29, 1901 My dear Sister Emma: - You have been in my mind often, I am wondering how you are enduring
the intense heat of this summer weather. I fear it will be trying for you as you are not strong. The few days that have been
about 100 or two and three over, in the shade, here are not so exhausting as with you on account of the dryness? of the atmosphere,
right here, there has not been a night that we have not been glad to draw a blanket up before morning. We are quite near the
Bay which will make a difference, but in the plains, and not so very far away