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4 no friends that will not go to these fountains beyond or are uncastoffable. Calm thinkers like your Doctor who first fed
me with science, Leconte are the kind of souls fit for the form- ation of human clouds adapted to the mtn sky. Nevertheless
I will rejoice beyond measure though you come as a comet tailed with a whole misty town. Ned is a brave fellow. God bless
him unspeakably, feed him with his own South- American self - - - I shall be most happy to know your Daggetts or anything
that you call dear Goodnight, love to all, J M I have not seen any of my Tribune letters thought I have written five or
six. Send copy if you can --- 1 Letterhead on paper: Pen Sentinel Hotel A. C. BLACK, Proprietor. Yo Semite Valley,
April 23d 1872. Dear Mrs Carr, Yours of Apr 9th 15 containing Neds canoe Col- onization adventures came tonight. I feel
that you are coming I will not hear any words of preparatory consolation for the un- supposeable case of your non appearance.
Come by way of Clarks spend a whole day or two in the Sequoias. Thence to Sentinel Dome, glacier point. From thence swoop
to our meadows groves direct by a trail now in course of construction wh will be completed by the time the snow melts. This
new trail will be 00588