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02115 in margin: Go over comfort Maggie tell Mamma to write to poor Sarah gone to Alaska would never more have seen my
mother. Then if I had not compelled Mary to come to Portage she would not have seen her either Sarah Anne would not have had
her help. had I not been in Portage probably Dan would not have come either, so all that was for the best. Then I went to
New York up the Hudson a hundred miles to see John Bourroughs Prof Osborne to escape being sun struck choked in the horrid
weather of the streets. then refreshed I got back to New York started for Boston Cambridge got through the Harvard business
all right caught a fast train got back to Portage in time for the funeral, then I stopped three or four days to settle all
the business write to Scotland, comfort Sarah Annie Mary then I ran down a half day to Madison. Then I went to Milwaukee stayed
a night with Wm Trout with whom I used to live in a famous hollow in the Canada woods 30 years ago. Next day I went to Indianapolis
saw everybody there stopped with them one night. Then came here last night stopped with Sellers. I am now in his office waiting
the arrival of the forestry commission with whom I expect to start work tonight at half past ten o'clock. It is now about
noon. I feel that this is the end of the strange lot of events I have been talking about for when I reach the Rocky Mountains
Ill feel at home. I saw a wonderful lot of squirrels at Osborns, Mrs Osborn wants you Wanda Mamma to visit her stay a long
time Good bye darling give my love to Wanda Mamma Grandma Maggie