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Mrs Timothy Hopkins
My dear May

So much time
has elapsed and
still I have found
it impossible to do
all that has fallen
to my share. I have
had you in mind each
day and wanted to
tell you how much
I prize your thought
of me these festive
days. The Photo Case
is so pretty and so
useful, and I shall
always prize it as
a token of love from
one [whom?] I ever

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weeks will go to the
Southern part of our
State and [?] for
some time Santa
Barbara is their chief
point attraction. I
had a letter from Mr
Nash a few days ago
he is at Hot Springs
Santa Barbara Co. he said
the weather was charming
and he is sleeping out
doors every night suspended
in a hammock [covered?]
with an [Inda Gulber?]
Umbrella in case of
rain he feels better
already. He lives on
Milk entirely drinking
three quarts a day,
which he [?] "hard
work." I have not seen