letterhead Muir Glacier Glacier Bay July 8th 1890 Dear little Helen I wish I could see you Papa is pretty lonesome
sometimes because I want so to have you beside me. The pretty flowers grow over the rocks though it is pretty cold, wild goats
are on the tops of the mountains a few seals trout live in the cold water But I feel like poor Paddy Grogan sometimes then
I have to look at your picture. I live in a little cloth house but Captain Carroll says that he is going to bring me lumber
nextime for a little wooden house. Tell Mamma that the Captain is very kind gives me everything I want. I got a sack of potatoes
some oranges meat things the Engineer is just now making iron for shoes 01446