Three Autograph Letters Signed from John Green in Los Angeles to Thomas J. Huper, a Fellow Lodge Member in Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado, about Treatments He is Seeking for His Lung Disease

John Green writes from the corner of Second and Hewitt streets in Los Angeles to Thomas J. Huper, a fellow Lodge member in Silver Plume, a silver mining camp Clear Creek County, Colorado, about treatments he is seeking for his lung disease. The tone of the letters is jaunty and jovial, and the spelling so atrocious it may be intentionally poor. In a letter postmarked 24 April 1892, with a salutation "to the Chefe Ranger oficers amd Brethren", reporting "i ham Still alive and kicken. well i have Seen thre 3 of the very best docters in Los Angles and they all give me grate incrougment thay all tould me that my Lungs was in a very bad Shap but the climet and Sume tret ent was in my favur that i feale the change already." On May 12, he reports leaving the three doctors; "i hame still doctring with a Chinmese [Chinese] and it is pretty Stepe doctrin to it costs me $2 doloers a day besids my bord but i think he will bring me hout [health?] all right yet he says he will..." By June 30 he has changed doctors again and made a contract with the Metropolitan Dispensary Company of San Francisco, which guarantees a cure in three months for $75. Having received his benefits to pay for treatment, Green asks to thank his Lodge brothers for their assistance.