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2d March 57 DuBuque Julien House DuBuque Iowa Monday Evening March 2 '57

My Dearest Well, I have had quite a trip today. I started quite early, too early to get any breakfast except a bit of dry bread. I walked two miles down to "the hollow", where the DuBuque and Pacific R.R. leaves the river, and where its temporary buildings are, before the expensive Depot grounds in the slough can be finished. The iron Train "Reconstruction, was to go out about Seven oclock; but the Engine got off the Rails on the hard curve of the Iron track, and they did not get started till Eleven. But I improved the time by climbing the Bluff to "DuBuque's Grave" the grave of old Julien DuBuque of whom I wrote you a few days since. I certainly could not but admire the old fellow's taste if his selection of a burial place. It is a high narrow Bluff, perpendicular or overhanging at the end, projecting into the river between Cat fish Creek & 'the Hollow', which Hollow was the great smelting place for the Lead ore mined in the Bluff cities around. This DuBuque's Bluff overlooks completely DuBuque & Dunleith, some three miles up the river and the whole mighty Mississippi flowing between its magnificent bluff banks a mile or two apart, for many miles North & South. The Tomb was a sort of Artificial Case, excavated on the point of the bluff, and built up of rough masonry which still remains. It had a great cover