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3 I can learn about her symptoms only the greatest care skill will restore her to perfect health I fondly hope that Dans
efforts on her behalf will prove successful I fancy your little flock are growing fast towards prime Yet how short seems the
time when you occupied your family place on Hickory Hill Our lives go on close like a day morning noon night, Yet how full
of pure happiness these life days may be how worthy of the God that plans them suns them The book you speak of is not yet
commenced but I must go into winter, quarters at once go to work While in the field I can only 00720 4 observe, take
in but give nothing out. The first winter snow is just now falling on Yosemite rocks. The domes are whitened ere long deleted:
will avalanches will rush with loud boom roar like new made waterfalls. Give my love to David the children Mr. Galloway I
will hope to yet see you all But now once more Farewell The November number of Harpers Monthly contains Living Glaciers
of Cala The illustrations are from my pencil sketches some of wh were made when my fingers were so benumbed with frost I could
scarcly hold my pencil. This is the first paper on glaciers I have yet published