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Mar. 19, 1903 Dear Mr Rowell I see by the newspaper that the President's little raid into Yosemite is to be made after
the middle of May. I shall not there for be able to join in it, I am very sorry to say, for according to an engagement made
before I learned the President's wish that I should accompany him, to which I referred in my first letter to you, I must be
in Boston May 15th sail for Europe a few days later. Please convey my regrets to the President, the 09220