Ambrose Bierce, Los Gatos, California, to Harriet Hershberg, Oakland, California, 1897

Scope and content:

Thanks her for sending him the ginger cakes which he tried to share with the horned-toads but they preferred grasshoppers. He declines to visit Oakland because his last visit cost him a month's illness but urges her to visit him in Los Gatos and to bring with her "that impossible paragon, the Pittsburgh sister -whom, however, I believe to be a myth."

Physical description:

ALS, 5 p., with envelope.

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