Your latest was dated Sept. 10. I got it while alone in the mountains,
but since then I have been in New York City and at West Point
and--here. New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.
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Please don't persuade me to come to California--I mean don't _try_ to,
for I can't, and it hurts a little to say nay. There's a big bit of my
heart there, but--O never mind the reasons; some of them would not
look well on paper. One of them I don't mind telling; I would not live
in a state under union labor rule. There is still one place where the
honest American laboring man is not permitted to cut throats and strip
bodies of women at his own sweet will. That is the District of
Columbia.