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Clarks Station Sep 13th 1873 Dear Mrs Carr: We have just arrived from the Valley are now fairly off for the ice in the highest
broadest of the Sierras. Our party consists of the blessed Doctor Billy Sims Artist I I am so glad that the Doctor will have
company when I am among the summits. We hoped to have secured Clark also a companion for me among the peaks snow, but Alack
I underlined: must go alone. Well, I will not complain a word for I shall be overpaid a thousand thousand fold. I can give
you no measured idea of the time of our reaching Tahoe but I will write always on coming to stations if such there be in the
rocks or sage