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San Francisco Sept 14th 1854

My Dear Mother,

I received your kind
letter dated Aug 1st in due season, and
I will now write a few lines in return,
which I hope may prove acceptable.

I was of course glad to hear that
you were well at the time you wrote, --
that H. had recovered from her sickness,
and that she would probably soon be smart
again, &c. I think Miss Lewis and her
scholars, must have had a hard time
of it, but I dare say it were better for
them all to be sick at the same time, if
they were to be so afflicted, that to have had
only a part of them sick at a time, for
as they were all sick at the same time
the school of course was dismissed for awhile
where if only a part of the scholars had been
sick at a time, and the school had gone on I do
not think it would have been very pleasing.

My health remains the same, as also
does my business. You wrote that Miss L.
thought Sam would come home the Fall;
I do not know but what he will, still
he has never written me that he thought of