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#133.

January 4, 1905.

Mr. John H. Cobbs,
Apatzingan,
State of Michoacan, Mexico.

My dear Mr. Cobbs:-

While you are basking in sunshine with tropical foliage and flowers all about you, we New Yorkers are in the grasp of a Western blizzard. It hardly seems possible that less than a month ago we were both together in the little acequia madre of your hacienda.

Mrs. Pepper and I had a great time after leaving Apatzingan, and this is the first letter that I have written to any one since my return. Five months of absence piles up a mass of material when one is doing work in which the public is interested, and I have before me a desk full of material which needs immediate attention. I am however, throwing everything aside for the moment to let you know that we are in the land of the living, and that we reached New York with safety.

When we left Uruapan we became quite well acquainted with your friend Brooks, and before reaching Acambaro on the final trip, it seemed that we had known him for years. When we reached Patzcuaro Mr. Brooks arranged money matters for us and took one of our Money Orders to the bank for exchange.