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Nevada City Feb 21st 65

Dear Sister Margaret

I have taken my pen
in hand this afternoon to write you some
sorrowful news. That happened one week ago
last Saturday the 11th of this month. Ervin
was spending the winter at our house the
roads were too bad for him to [Team]
across the mountains and he thought
he would stay with us this winter and
while he was here he thought he would
work enough to pay for his board and
he only worked eight days until he was
blown up in a tunnel Ervin and a
man by the name of Edward Shore
were blasting in a tunnel they went to
work in the morning and the first
blast went off about 10 o'clock and when