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the grapes have especially failed this year, although the [bread?] stuffs have been better than in Germany and Russia. The grape vines have been terribly injured with the phylloxera and, with the exception of the vines which had been imported from America, have been totally destroyed.

I can well imagine how busy you are in California with all you have on hand, then, but suppose you will soon be going east with Mrs Stanford