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San Francisco

March 18,1896

Dear Mrs. Guthridge,

Your valued
words of congratulation and
interest I accept with grat-
itude. Let me disclaim
one suggestion made,
the following, "How perfect
all things must seem
to you now." My dear
friend I have not been
even joyous, and I cannot
see a life of perfection
before me, I have still to
walk the valley of desolation.

The numerous cares and
anxieties which would follow