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El Paso, Texas, Nov. 22nd, 1880.

My Dear Brother,

I had
intended in this letter to give
you a somewhat detailed description
of the country and inhabitants
but I find myself so [pressed?] for
time and with such limited and
meager facilities for writing that
I can scarcely more [?]
that I am here, and well, and
that I am enjoying myself in
this really foreign country.

Perhaps you wonder how I got
here, away off from rail roads, and
away from any where but I´ll tell
you although it is to be considered
as confidential. I walked: not of
course from Santa Fe but from
Colorado or Colorow as the Mexicans call it