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Minoral King. July 24,1908 Darling Helen We are on our way home. Camped here last night, this eve will camp at Redwood
Meadows, tomorrow expect to be in the Giant Forest. Next day will be spent in the glorious groves then down to the lowlands
home. I was not acquainted with the poor woman who fell from the dangerous cliffs of the Great Arroyo near our main camp
at Funstan Camp. She was a teacher in the Berkeley High School, fell in attempting an all but impossible short way to camp.
But for this accident all the trip has boon a grand success in every way. Never to me have these noble mountains seemed more
divinely noble inviting peaceful, so full of life and beauty, joyful, exhilarating,exuberantly flowery songful. Everybody
glad. they ventured to join the big wild outing. I'm so glad you are happy in the grand old mountain-rimmed life-giving desert.
Almost everyone of the party have made kind inquirys about your health seemed truly glad you are so surely on the way to a
long happy life. I got your fine postal card of the desert a letter the day before yesterday another last eve dated the 18th.
G1ad. the fire did you no ill.Kind regards to all your Daggett friends. Lovingly, devotedly John Muir He had a hard shivery
frost lest night. o to think of it.