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letterhead June 7, 1895 My dear friend Muir, Last week Wednesday it was arranged, I was to write the next day, that
we would be in San Francisco this week. A few days before this we went out to Woodstock to bury my mother, the weather was
wet cold dreary Mrs. Sellers caught a severe cold, on the Wednesday night above mentioned, it developed into quite a severe
illness. The business that I was going to San F. on, was to attend a meeting there on June 15th in connection with a land
scheme in Mountain Home Idaho, that this Company is acting as trustee for. It has just been decided to hold this meeting at
Mountain Home and as Fay is still too ill for me to leave her I shall have to send Frank in my place. He will leave here Sunday
night. Now this dont necessarily mean that we may not come out this summer. as I tell Fay that as we have an annual pass
over the Santa Fe which expires Dec 31 we will have to go out to San F. or return before that date to get our money's worth
for her health. Now I understand from you that you were going into the mountains about July 1. When do you expect to come
out? Our business has grown so since we moved into our elegant new offices (La Salle Washington Sts), the Trust Department
illegible (Frank's) with the rest, that I don't see how it will be possible to let him go with you to the mountains this summer.
Old fellows like you I have earned the right to go but 01990