Letters to a Friend 



Heard through your factor here that Miss 

 Powell is worse and that you would not be down 

 soon. I received your letter and postal, also the 

 letters you thought I had lost, via one from 

 Salt Lake for which I sent and one from Yo- 

 semite which Black forwarded. 

 With love to all I am ever 



Yours cordially, 



J. M. 



1419 Taylor St., San Francisco, 

 September 3d, [1877.] 



I have just been over at Alameda with poor 

 dear old Gibbons. You have seen him, and I 

 need give no particulars. "The only thing I'm 

 afraid of, John/' he said, looking up with his 

 old child face, "is that I shall never be able to 

 climb the Oakland hills again." But he is so 

 healthy and so well cared for we will be strong 

 and hope that he will. 



He spoke for an hour with characteristic un 

 selfishness on the injustice done Dr. Kellogg in 

 failing to recognize his long-continued devotion 

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