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Martinez, Cal. Dec. 3. 1898 My dear Mr Kip, I reached home three days agao, your kind note of the 9th of last month written
when I was on my way to Florida reached me today. I should have been delighted to have visited you this summer but my trip
has been all given to the forests it seemed impossible to see one in ten on a score of the friends I wanted to visit I hope
the fates will be better to one next time. A sketch of my trip as a whole will show you how sternly I have been driven, Left
home Sep 7th by the Oregon railroad to Portland, thence to Spokane around to Duluth by the great Northern. Then down the lakes
by steam to Buffalo thence to Boston, Next day to Cape Cod. Then back to Boston off to the Alleghany forests with Prof. Sargent
Mr Canby of Wilmington, Del. through N. Carolina, Georgia,