#54 Grizzly Bluff, Humboldt Co., Calafornia, April 12 1893 Dear Brother: it is raining today and I am alone Setting by the cookstove craming in spruce wood it burnes up about like Kansas corn cobs.  Hattie has cone to a rag carpet Sewing party to a near neighbors it is very thickly Settled here and they can get up a party on short notice.  "heap talk," Hattie and I are running the ranch alone now.  Edna is at home from Friday until Monday morning.  Mary is at her old home at Englewood.  Charley is at his school on Bull Creek, all well. What kind of a winter have we had? well a fair average one.  the fore part was fine - the latter part very wet
