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1 27 Seven miles north from Snellings May 16th 69 Dear friend, The thoughts of again meeting with you with the mountains
- make me scarce able to hold my pen If you can let me know by the first of June when you will leave Stockton I will meet
you in the very valley itself. When the grass of the plains is dead most owners of sheep drive their flocks to the pastures
green' of the mountains, as my soul is athirst for mountain things? I have engaged between the head waters of the Tuol illegible
Yo Semite, within a few hours walk of the valley. For the next two weeks I will be at Hopeton. Sometime in the first week
of June I will start from this place (Patrick Delaney Ranch) for the mountains, by the middle of June or a little later we
will have our flock settled in the new home, having made special arrangements for a two weeks ramble, with you, I will ten
be ready free, any time between - say the 20th of June 15th of July will suit me. I intended? to enjoy another hap illegible
in the illegible of Yo-Semite whether with companions of like passions or alone, surely then in margin: I bid you goodbye
thanking the Lord for the hopes of seeing you for his goodness to you in turning? Yours? face towards his most holy mansion
of the mountains.