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4 I will work always as I do now. I have great toil greater rewards I would like illegible to spend a week or two among
you all, so I will when the right time arrives. It seems as though I was living more apart from you than formerly. I suppose
on account of the difference of our pursuit. The Yellow days of Oct are full of that infinite calm repose that so inspires
every receptive soul whether in the Indian summers of Wisconsin or in the untrodden gardens of Calafornia Mtns - Farewell
with love to David all the younglings Ever affectionately John Muir 1 Yosemite Oct 8th 1872 Dear Sister Sarah Your
big woolly socks are safe in my possession of course I am already thankful in all of my ten toes that tingled with anticipated
comfort at the sight of underlined: so much warm wool. I got down last eve from the high Sierras - was out eleven days in
that time pushed through the hitherto un- explored Tuolumne Canon - Climbed three times to the top of Mt Hoffman once to Mt
Lyell. The Tuolumne Canon is a gorge twenty one miles long from two to more than five thousand feet in depth full of the very
grandest of rock forms waterfalls cascades of endless variety size, it is in all respects a Yosemite. in margin: The Yosemite
Poem you send, I read in the out illegible manuscript the Poem was hatched here last summer. Joaquin Muller has gone to London