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1533 SUTTER STREET
Sonfrancisco Aug 20./98

My Dear Asahel Naoma & all the family
We are here on the Coast and doing as
well as we Can I was Sorry Brother Gannor
was suddenly calld home for I cherish the
Needd a rest here quite as Much as I do
we were glad that Alice got along
as well as she did I hope the rest of
you are all well this tell her a Clara Love
to real Eat, Drink sleep & see sights we went
one night to see the Battle of Munella it was vary
intaresting to see the Bombardment of the Spanish
Forts, blowing them up, taking the spanish prisioners
And the fire works was the greatest scene
I ever saw in my life it was quite Cold
out we had to be well wraped up the spanish