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8 4 Then I told him the story of our faithful correspondence how I found you in the valley long eventful years ago. Looking
across our grand continent into the Madison lan-syne,- How clearly you all come in sight ? Yourself, your wife, James, Anna,
little Henry, Agnes also, though I did not come to know her until she was in full girl bloom reading Greek. Give them my love
tell them to come see me. illegible That I may see you again ere long, that you may live a full century at least, bearing
the big years like a noble sequoia, I devoutly hope pray. Ever your friend, John Muir.