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Sunday Nov 18th 1855. How do you do? Today,
I am as well as usual, and should be pleased
to know that you are well also.

A week ago yesterday morning, we had the
first rain of the season, in the shape of two
or three heavy showers, and for a day or two
afterward it was cloudy and rainy most of
the time. Since then how ever, the weather has
been clear cool and delightful. I think I
have written you before that what we call
the rainy season, here, is the pleasantest season
of the year when it does not rain.

We have but two seasons here, the wet season
and the dry season. The temperature of the at-
mosphere, changes but very little throughout the
year, being very even the whole time. We
seldom see any ice here in San Francisco
and never any snow, nearer than on the
mountains about fifty miles distant from
the city. Neither is the weather ever very hot here
so you may know that, so far as climate is
concerned S. F. is a very pleasant place to live
in throughout the year. The rainy season usually
commences about the middle of November and
we have rain at intervals from that time
until the middle of May when the rains
cease, and then we have dry weather again
until the middle of November without so much
as a single shower.