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For two years I have only been absent from
San Francisco eleven days, so you can see
that I am rather more steady than I used
to be. I have got so now, that I have no
desire to go away from my business, but
feel content so long, as I have anything to
attend to, and I hope I may always feel
as willing to work as I have done for the past
two years, for if I do, and am blessed with
good health, I shall never need to want for
the necessaries of life for I can always
earn a good living anywhere, at any time.

Lizzie L. [Lewis] writes me that May E. Jewett is
married at last to Mr. Hooper, and that
after their marriage they took a trip on to N. York [New York].

She writes too that the weather had been very
cold, and J. A. T. [J. A. Tucker] wrote that they had already
had forty days of good sleighing in Boston with a
fair prospect of having 40 days more of the same
sort. Here throughout the month of February we
had beautiful weather. A week ago Saturday
and Sunday it was so warm that a person
walking about the streets, in order to be comfortable
needed thin clothes. -- Since then however, it has
been somewhat cooler, consequently more pleasant

I expect however to see more rain during
this month and the month of April, although
today is a beautiful day, warm and pleasant --