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4 I have a rare chance of getting your plants packed out of the valley tomorrow so have determined to send all together
deleted: together with a few seeds in a box by Wells Fargo EX - I am ever cordially your friend John Muir The books, both
Hutchings mine are along all right. Many thanks, I am hard at work on dead glaciers 1 Yosemite Valley Dec' 18th, 72
My dear Gray, I received the last of your notes two days ago announcing the arrival of the ferns. You speak of three boxes
of Primula. I sent seven or eight. I had some measurements to make about the throat of the South Dome so yesterday I climbed
there. then ran up to Clouds Rest for your Primulas, as I stuffed them in big sods into a sack, I said Now I wonder what mouth-
-fuls this size will accomplish for the Doctors primrose hunger. Before filling your sack I witnessed one of the