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San Francisco Febry [February] 28th 1855

Dear Mother

Since I wrote you my
last letter, we have been having rain
the whole time, I think I wrote in my
last, that it had thus commenced
raining, and that night and the
next one, we had a great time of
it I assure you. The roof, over our
room, that we had occupied since
last July, which was of pine got
badly cracked by the fire, or rather
at the time of the fire by people
walking over it, and thus when
it came on to rain, the water
came down into our rooms, like
a shower bath. Two nights in suc-
cession it rain down onto my bill
through two thicknesses of my Bay
State shawl, an old coat, four thick-
nesses of blankets, and through my
hair mattress, and I thus made
up my mind to move, rather than
to be drowned out, so we moved
forthwith. We have now got a room