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With the Compliments of
the Editor.

El Paso, Texas, Nov 20th, 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 counting 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 altogether it is to be [counted?]
as confidential. I walked: not of
course from Santa Fe but from
Colorado or [?] as the Mexicans call it