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4 classes, and the other painting away, furiously, Maria baby teaching each other. We prize very much the photos of Wanda
Helen which you so kindly sent us--they are lovely. Uncle Hardie is well Mrs. Hardie Mrs. Jeffrey. The Dunbar friends are
well too. My wife baby were there for a few days some two months ago. By the way would it not be well to introduce more of
the human element into those wonderful descriptions in picturesque California? I have been watching for the recital of that
story of that regiment of squirrels that came to interview you on one occasion sitting down on their 1 letterhead 27
April 1894 My dear Cousin John Muir Mountains valleys, cascades waterfalls, gigantic trees rocks little snow flowers,
birds and beasts and creeping things, what a wealth of grand and wonderful objects, all lighted up by the magic touch of a
brilliant imagination How you do revel in this panorama of Beauty, fresh fair as it comes from the Divine Artist's hand You
seem to say, My altars are the mountain the Ocean, Earth, Air, Sky, all which spring from the Great Whole, of Him who hath
produced and will receive the Soul. Let me drink in its grandeur and 01806