Transcription:
JOHN K.GORE, VICE PRESIDENT AND ACTUARY WILBUR S.JOHNSON, 2D VICE PRES,AND COMPTROLLER EDWARD GRAY, 3D VICE PRESIDENT
FORREST F. DRYDEN, PRESIDENT EDWARD D.DUFFILED,4TH VICE PRES.AND GENERAL SOLICITOR WILLARD I.HAMILTON,SECRETARY C.A
FOEHL,MANAGER FOR EASTERN PENNDYLVANIA NELSON F.EVANS,SUPT.OF AGENTS ORDINARY DEPARTMENT ELIGHT FLOOR THE NORTH-AMERICAN
BUILDING PHILADELPHIA,PA GEORGE B.SPEED ASSISTANT SECRETARY IN RE other gentleman whose name I cannot recall.As
we approached the summit of Three Brothers late in the afternoon of August 3, 1870, an eagle, disturbed by our approach,flew
away from this summit quite near to us; whereupon Laura said to you, I name this Eagle Peak; and you replied that shall be
its name. You evidently faithfully kept this promise, for I find in the U. S. Government maps of Yosemite region that mountain
top is in all of them named Eagle Peak. It is a pleasant reflection for me and my daughters, that my wife and their mother
named a mountain,on the pioneer trip to that mountain with the distinguished John Muir as a guide. You said no white woman,
and indeed no party of tourists, had ever been there before us. You are therefore justified in recording the following names
as the party conducted by you and your Indian helper: Nelson F.Evans: Francis L.Robbins: Philadelphia. Laura Snow
Wood: :Rockland, Maine. Lucy Hatch: I shall be very grateful if you will advise me where I can purchase the volume you
are to write, in which you may mention this incident.With best wishes for your health and happiness in this pretty good old
world for yet many years. Yours respectfully, illegible 05774