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Original letter in mounted set of letters to Mrs. Carr: 23 To Mrs. Ezra S. Carr Brownsville, Yuba Co., Jan. 19th, 1875.
My dear Mrs. Mother Carr: Here are some of the dearest and bonniest of our Father's bairns - the little ones that so few
care to see. I never saw such enthusiasm in the care and breeding of mosses as Nature manifests among these northern Sierras.
I have studied a big fruitful week among the ca ons and ridges of the Feather and another among the Yuba rivers, living and
dead. I have seen a dead river - a sight worth going round the world to see. The dead rivers and dead gravels wherein lies
the gold form magnificent problems, and I feel wild and unmanageable with the intense interest they excite, but I wi11 choke
myself off and finish my glacial work and that little book of studies. I have been spending a few fine social days with Emily
Pe1ton , but now work. How gloriously it storms. The pines are in ecstasy, and I feel it and must go out to them. I must
borrow a big coat and mingle in the storm and make some studies. Farewell. Love to all. M. P.S. How are Ned and Keith?
I wish Keith had been with me these Shasta and Feather River days. I have gained a thousand fold more than I hoped. Heaven
send you Light and the good blessings of wildness. How the rains plash and roar, and how the pines wave and pray.