Ambrose Bierce, Wright's, California, to Harriet Hershberg, San Francisco, California, 1899

Scope and content:

Urges Hattie to come, rent a house, and visit several weeks in the area along with Belle and Florence, "Please say if you will come and thereby sweeten the fragrance of the flowers, intensify the gold of the sunshine and add a new music to the voices of my pet quails -one of which sits on my knee as I write and looks knowing as if he said: I can tell by your face whom you are writing to?"

Physical description:
ALS, 5 p., with envelope.

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