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you say of your school it must be pleasant. You and Mary ? there it seems to spend sometime in the spring on the Cape. I hope you will have a very pleasant time and it will be the means of doing you much good mentally and physically. In reference to your California brother I Assure you if I get as far west as the Golden Clime I will try to look him up and bring him back to dear old New England. But would you believe it I have got so I have no inclination to return to New England to live. I prefer living in the west decidedly. Do you ask why? It is because I can do so much better here than there and I think my health is also better. Are those good reasons? I love the intelligence and virtue of New England but the elements of progress I think I see here in greater abundance than there. I have also formed some excellent acquaintances here in the wish I find human nature about the same everywhere I go. I find very social and intelligent people in Peru where we live and where Josie died. I am becoming acquainted here and find some very pleasant people I have made my home at this point some four months, but a large majority here and elsewhere have given themselves up to hoarding wealth at the expense of intellectual and spiritual rights. There are quite a number of very wealthy men in this place having from 30,000 to 350,000 dollars