4 letterhead made our visit very interesting. Mr Higginson is the man who wrote the pretty out-door book I gave to Lou.
Tell Helen that I will send her pictures of Emerson Thoreau today, write a letter for her own dear little self tomorrow. It
has been very hot but I have stood it quite well- for Johnson took me away when it was hottest. I must now go to work at my
M. S. Ask mama to read you the story of the illegible dog see what you think of it. Everybody here seems to think it wonderful.
It is to form a separate article in the Century. Tell mama she will find it in a book copied from the original notes. Tell
mama to keep in the shade not read while her eyes are weak I shall get all your letters sent c/ of? the Century wherever I
am. I will send my European address as soon as I know it. Goodbye darling babies Your loving papa John Muir