Letters to a Friend 



I shall long for a letter from you. Will you 

 please write me a long letter? Perhaps it will 

 be safer to send it to New Orleans, La. I shall 

 have to go there for a boat to South America. 

 I do not yet know which point in South Amer 

 ica I had better go to. What do you say? My 

 means being limited, I cannot stay long any 

 where. I would gladly do anything I could for 

 Mr. Warren, but I fear my time will be too short 

 to effect much. 



I did not see Miss Brooks, because I found 

 she was 130 miles from Savannah. I passed the 

 Bostwich plantation and could not conveniently 

 go back. I am very sorry about the mistake. 



I have written little, but you will excuse me. 

 I am wearied. 



My most cordial love to all. 



Near Snelling, Merced Co., 



California, July 26th, [1868.] 



I have had the pleasure of but one letter 

 since leaving home from you. That I received 

 at Gainesville, Georgia. 



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