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Downieville January 28

Dear sister I am not in proper mood for
writeing [writing] tonight but I have not heard
From you since you wrote from Pontiac
I got it the first of Nov and wrote
the 6^th I am getting along quite well
better than I have been for two years
I think I shall be well enough by
spring to go to the valley. I am quite
comfortable here but I have to thank
the doctor for it. he allows me more
privelieges [privileges] than any Hospital patient
ever had before. I live in a cabbin cabin by
myself I can get better exercise
than if I was confined in a Hospital
and I am allowed to go to there and
get medicine provisions clothes &c [etc]
which I do for I have not even earned
any clothes for about three years
in fact I have been about as near
used up as people generally get and live
and our poor country in such an awful
condition too. it is enough to make
the old American Eagle jus fairly gag
gag to think of it

we have had the hardest old winter
ever known in Cal. it would snow
about a week and then rain a week
and then the old rivers would howl

I guess you will think I feel pretty
swell and so I do. I have got the best
cabin in the mountains. lined and
papered and hung around with the
more than a hundred of the
prettyest [prettiest] pictures I cut them